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   Anonymous Coward, Mar 24th, 2008 @ 6:32am

   
   

   Walmart sucks.

    

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   Matt Bennett, Mar 24th, 2008 @ 7:06am

   
   

   Wasn't some other guy, who came up with the smiley face in the 60's trying to enforce copyright on the smiley? Wouldn't he own it, and walmart would have to license it from HIM?

    

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   DanC, Mar 24th, 2008 @ 8:00am

   
   

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   Wasn't some other guy, who came up with the smiley face in the 60's trying to enforce copyright
   
   Trademark, not copyright. Frank Loufrani registered the trademark in 1971, but claims he came up with the smiley face in 1968. He tried to apply for a U.S. trademark in 1997, but Walmart opposed it. Neither one of them deserves the trademark - the symbol is far too common, and appears on too much merchandise for any one company to claim ownership.
   
   There's plenty of doubt as far as Loufrani's "creation" of the smiley face as well. Harvey Ball claims to have created it in 1963 in Massachusetts.

    

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   SteveP, Mar 24th, 2008 @ 9:25am

   
   

   Re: Re:

   Everyone knows it was Forrest Gump

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Mar 24th, 2008 @ 10:36am

   
   

   Walmart sucks!

   Hey Wal-mart, trademark this -> :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

    

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   Overcast, Mar 24th, 2008 @ 10:42am

   
   

   Streisand Effect...

    

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   Anonymoose, Mar 24th, 2008 @ 10:51am

   
   

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   Streisand Effect? Are you serious? Google something before you go blindly assuming that every piece of news is the Streisand Effect...

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Mar 24th, 2008 @ 10:56am

   
   

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   Ha ha ha ha ha ..... I'm just gonna start posting "Streisand Effect" now too - it sure makes you sound smart hey???
   
   I shop at Walmart. Why? They're fucking cheap and I don't give a crap about the mutants who work there!

    

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   Etch, Mar 24th, 2008 @ 11:24am

   
   

   Wal-mart

   What about South Park and their Episode titled "The Wal-Mart" where the kids have to go destroy the heart of the wal-mart in order for it to implode upon itself! lol
   They actually use the real name and likeness! If they can't sue South Park then they definitely can't sue a T-Shirt maker!

    

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    Matt Bennett, Mar 24th, 2008 @ 11:46am

    
    

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    I think it was Ball I was thinking of, I think he was trying to enforce an actual copyright, getting sales of t-shirts and whatnot banned.

     

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    DanC, Mar 24th, 2008 @ 11:59am

    
    

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    Then you aren't thinking of Harvey Ball. He never tried to copyright or trademark the smiley face.
    
    Must be someone else.

     

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    Phil, Mar 24th, 2008 @ 1:10pm

    
    

    Re: Smilly creator

    It was some other guy, he died not long ago. But at the time he came up with it, he felt no need to patent it.
    
    Too bad he didn't

     

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    DanC, Mar 24th, 2008 @ 1:31pm

    
    

    Re: Re: Smilly creator

    he felt no need to patent it
    
    He wouldn't have been able to patent it. Patents are for inventions, not for artwork.
    
    He could have applied for a copyright, but it most likely wouldn't have mattered, due to the murky history of the smiley face. Including your "some other guy", we've identified 3 people who claim they created the smiley face.
    
    And Harvey Ball died in 2001. I'm thinking he's probably the guy you're thinking of, but all he ever wanted was recognition for the creation. He never tried to enforce his copyright.
    
    Loufrani, on the other hand, has filed trademark lawsuits in Europe over its use.

     

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    Marsha Hendershot, Apr 26th, 2008 @ 5:57pm

    
    

    HAPPY FACE

    Will look how not smile..........
    
    I wish every one would just keep dogg'n the idiots
    What! I don't understand is What about ALL the Women that worked for W-M befor the big law suit...from, I believe 1995 forward...We were victims of the very some things they went
    and even worse....And so did some of the guys...I helped open up the 3rd store Tulsa,OK.1985 and we had to endure horrible
    treatment....

     

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    terry wagar, Jun 9th, 2008 @ 12:31pm

    
    

    clackamas walmart in portland oregon frames people as pedo's so they can murder them and get away with it, they are hideing a man named eric carlson, he worked there for over a year around mid 2007 and mid 2008, he died his hair black and got a new identity from his friends in authority and now goes by the name gashel, last name unknown by me.

     

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    pam, Oct 20th, 2008 @ 7:01am

    
    

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    WALMART ROCKS!
    WHAT THE HELL DO YOU KNOW!

     

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    PAM, Oct 20th, 2008 @ 7:02am

    
    

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    harvey ball supposibly invented it. he was helping a client in an insurance company ad.

     

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    Daniel, Apr 16th, 2009 @ 8:00am

    
    

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