“I hope they grease the Tory fucker for whatever little he has.”

Nice to see partisanship overrides free speech and opposing the interests of corporations as opposed to individuals. Clearly thinking of the implications of your lines is a bit beyond you. Despite his slightly mischevious ending implying Republicans and Conservatives are the same, Unity at least admits this is a problem.

I suppose if you approve of the move, your wonderfully eloquent and well-thought out position can reassure Sunny that he has nothing to worry about from the Liberal Party (still apparently around) or the Liberal Democrats (also still apparently around – I saw one at the weekend) claiming misuse of their copyright domain. After all, having people claim ownership of bits of our common language is in no way a threat to individual freedom, in no way a call for the dominance of party and corporation over the common man, and in no way opening the gates for ownership of common space, common land or common law by private individuals and companies. But for you, the important thing is none of these; it’s getting one over on the rival tribe – would you agree with someone saying that they would happily sacrifice [I]habeus corpus [/I]in return for Celtic beating Rangers, because it is the equivalent of what you said.

Watchman is right about Fred Ryan and conservative v liberal.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/Examiner-Opinion-Zone/Politico-accuses-The-College-Politico-of-trademark-infringement.html

They have been succesful moving against other American companies before.They do own some naming rights in the US. I think its outrageous and we should organize across party lines to shame them into submission.

This post was mentioned on Twitter by LawrenceMills: RT @libcon: US Media giant sicks lawyers on Tory Blogger over domain name http://bit.ly/d00Jgf...

Jeez, I thought you guys were supposed to be on the same side?”

Well, they won the cold war a while back so which side would that be? Can I repeat one of my favourite maxims: Conservative does not equal Republican (nor does conservative – there are liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats) any more than Democrat equals Labour.

In this case there are clearly different sides: arrogant big business interests (shorthand of standard point number 8: right-wing does not mean pro-big-business) against individuals. This is basically an abuse (and not a very good one) of copyright. I would have thought it was difficult to prove exclusive ownership of a word in reasonably common usage though.

Cybersquatting bastards.

Tory-politico only gets 5% of it’s traffic from the US.

Tory-politico should and will fight this.

To be fair, they probably have justified concerns.

I’d be annoyed if some tory blog was a hononym for my business too.