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Pxtltoday at 12:30 AM1 replyview on HN

Can Tolkien's estate please do something?


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Terr_today at 1:07 AM

In seriousness, probably not, unless US "intellectual property" law gets worse somehow.

Short phrases fall under trademarks rather than copyrights, and even then it needs to be something that would cause commercial confusion, and very few people are going to buy a Tolkien book expecting a nuclear reactor or vice-versa.