Comments on: Dispensing Justice: Pez Sues Town Over Giant Pez Dispenser

By: Bob,Esq.

Bob,Esq. — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:55:38 +0000

Carrie Fisher: You’re not really famous until your head is on a Pez dispenser.

By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:14:40 +0000

Buddha,

That’s quite a tort! It’ll only be resolved in the LHC!!

Mike S.,

I was thinking the same thing. Are they nuts? People bowing down around a graven image of your product? It would cost some serious Pezanu to pay for that kind of marketing.

By: Mike Spindell

Mike Spindell — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:11:59 +0000

Were I the CEO of PEZ I would immediately fire my entire PR Department and Legal Department, in addition to any Vice Presidents who thought up this suit. Why would anyone selling an inane product like PEZ not want free, positive publicity. The legal issue be damned, where is the intelligence in this company’s endeavor. We knew from childhood that the candy is awful in taste and texture anyway, so why waste the opportunity for honest, if misguided, lionization?

By: Buddha Is Laughing

Buddha Is Laughing — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:50:56 +0000

Jill,

I might agree with that analysis if the Monoliths were directly dispensing smarter monkeys. And I only say smarter monkeys because at the time of the original Monolith appearance, refined sugar wasn’t locally available. I’m pretty sure you need that to make Pez. Yeah yeah yeah you can argue the Monolith was dispensing an energy wave, but there are practical reasons we still discuss matter and energy as separate even in the post-Einstein world. It might be different if Pez offered charmed or photon flavor candies. No, Kubrick was guilty of listening to Arthur Clarke who was ripping off the Greeks. Greece may have a case against Pez, the studio and the estates of Clarke and Kubrick though if they can assert an interest in the golden ratio via the works of Plato, Euclid, et al. Modern scientists who have worked on the golden ratio, like physicist Roger Penrose, could all join the big merry civil suit too. But then again, when you try to restrict the laws of geometry with the laws of man, disaster often ensues. Oh the symmetry, er, um, humanity. Yeah, that’s it. Humanity.

By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:43:11 +0000

I think the real infringement. is Stanley Kubricks’. That was his Pez monoliths first.

By: MASkeptic

MASkeptic — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:14:14 +0000

On the peep subject there’s a video on “the youtubes” of a guy eating peeps for charity. I don’t have the link but I believe you can find it by searching for “Vlogbrothers peeps”. It’s an interesting channel.

By: Buddha Is Laughing

Buddha Is Laughing — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:46:44 +0000

AY,

You forget that one group of indiscriminate eaters: the stoned. I once saw a very high young woman eat about 40 Peeps. And when I say young woman, I mean she could (and did) vote, drive, buy beer, and have sex with whomever struck her fancy and was of legal age. It was one of the more revolting things I saw in all of that year.

Friends don’t let friends eat Peeps.

By: Anonymously Yours

Anonymously Yours — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:18:51 +0000

So who eats PEZ’s anyway. It is kinda like Peeps, you know that they are out there but have you really ever seen anyone besides a child eat them?

By: John MacNeill

John MacNeill — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:37:09 +0000

A friendly correction; the article mentions trademark infringment, which is not the same thing as copyright infringment.