Well,
it’s good to see college students maintaining their sense of humor despite legal challenges from media heavy weights. The April 1, 2008 edition of the The Daily Cardinal, the campus newspaper for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, includes an article with the headline “UW sues Sesame Street for using the letter ‘W’”.
The article explains how UW-Madison has sued Sesame Street, claiming the show’s teaching of the letter ‘W’ to small children infringes on the university’s ownership of the letter. The article includes quotes from Kermit the Frog, Oscar the Grouch, Bert, and Big Bird speaking out against the lawsuit.
Protecting the letter “W” would probably be a better trademark infringement lawsuit than copyright infringement lawsuit – but the article’s quite funny nevertheless.
Several University of Wisconsin-Madison students have been targeted by the
RIAA for illegally file sharing music.
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