A Conversation for A Brief History of McDonald's
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Bright Blue Shorts Started conversation Apr 18, 2005
Another losing lawsuit for McD's over at:
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a990827.html
Plus of course wasn't there a Scottish islander called "Ronald McDonald" who tried to sue them because they were suing someone else. Something about showing the absurdity of McD's trying to copyright something that was very common.
BBS 
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Cheerful Dragon Posted Apr 18, 2005
Actually, the man came from Aberdeen and was called Ronald McDonald. Here's a link to a site with the story:http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/press/prnjournal_28sep96.html
I'm not sure that anything ever came of either case, but it shows how absolutely stupid companies can be in the quest to protect what they see as 'theirs'.
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Geggs Posted Apr 21, 2005
Yeah, there was a similar case with Micro$oft last year, when they persued a lad called Micheal Rowe who had produced a few tiny bits of software, and advertised them on his website at mikerowesoft.com.
It was quite entertaining for a few days, watching M$ people decide that they were hounding an innocent kid.
Geggs
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