Renaming challenge

[rygD]

No matter what you call this shit...

I propose "This Shit".

[Triple Zero]

just use THE _____ PRISON and be done with it

can underscores be part of a subforum name?

wouldn't you like to find out?

[LHX]

just use THE _____ PRISON and be done with it

can underscores be part of a subforum name?

wouldn't you like to find out?

i second the motion

[hunter s.durden]

There, it's done.
Now end this.

[East Coast Hustle]

I liked "The Monkey Shackles"


anyway, how the fuck do you pronounce "_____"?

if you can't say it, that makes it hard to sell it to other people.

[hunter s.durden]

It's being pronouced blank.

We need to put this to vote for about a week and end this nonsense.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

call it

The Renamed Philosophical Construct Formerly Known as the Black Iron Prison but Whose Name Had to Be Changed for Copyright and Other Reasons

or, for short, the RPCFKBIPWNHBCCOR

[Mangrove]

i still like BIP.

if it does get changed, that totally fucks up Liber 812.

of course, i will get over it eventually.


just to throw this out there: i don't know a great deal about copyright law et al. but back when i was in 'the mangrooves' and writing songs, i did  learn that song titles are not copyrightable, only the song itself. apparently, there's nothing stopping me writing a song called 'time after time'. of course, it would just cause confusion with the other song of that name*, but it's not, in itself a violation (or so i've heard). if i started ripping some of the lyrics and melody, then that's when the problem starts.

in the same way, i'm sure there's been at least 3 films called 'the hunted' and 2 called 'crossroads'.

i didn't get this info from a copyright lawyer or anything, so i won't stake my life on it. but if it is true, then 'black iron prison' doesn't exactly infringe on PKD. in the general populus, how many people are going to say to know about Valis anyway?

just a thought. blame the cereal.


* i think there might actually be an old jazz song called 'time after time' and sung by chet baker.....will have to check. the point is that there's plenty of things out there with same or similar names that are not necessarily problematic legally.

[LHX]

lets call it '812'

im serious


it almost even looks like BIP

[Mangrove]

call it

The Renamed Philosophical Construct Formerly Known as the Black Iron Prison but Whose Name Had to Be Changed for Copyright and Other Reasons

or, for short, the RPCFKBIPWNHBCCOR

[hunter s.durden]

I thought the issue was that BIP conjured thoughts of Dick.
It was my issue anyway.

[LHX]

lol 'thoughts of dick'

[tyrannosaurus vex]

Anyway

wasn't it already called The Con?

or is that something else

[Mangrove]

I thought the issue was that BIP conjured thoughts of Dick.
It was my issue anyway.

it could. but only to people who like...um...you know....read books.

i'm not totally against changing it. i'm sure we'll all adapt & survive.

i just don't think that PKD associations is a problem with regards to distribution of lit amongst the general public. if we called the book 'black iron hogwarts' then we'd be in a whole mess of shit.

[LMNO]

'black iron hogwarts'