I'll be the one to ask...What in the blue hell is Cloo?
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Originally posted by TorchslasherI'll be the one to ask...What in the blue hell is Cloo?
Formerly Sleuth, it's a mystery cable channel arm of the NBC family of networks
Ah, thank you. I'm assuming they show reruns of Matlock and The Father Dowling Mysteries.
With a name like Cloo, they have to work in showings of Clue The Movie right? And if they do, I will order that channel.
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Originally posted by TorchslasherI'll be the one to ask...What in the blue hell is Cloo?
Formerly Sleuth, it's a mystery cable channel arm of the NBC family of networks
Ah, thank you. I'm assuming they show reruns of Matlock and The Father Dowling Mysteries.
With a name like Cloo, they have to work in showings of Clue The Movie right? And if they do, I will order that channel.
It's funny, I watch House and Monk and other NBC Universal shows on there (mostly just reruns of USA shows) but I saw one morning they had "'Til Death" airing. All I could think of (and Tweet) is the only mystery involved in that show was how it lasted as long as it did.
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Originally posted by TorchslasherI'll be the one to ask...What in the blue hell is Cloo?
Formerly Sleuth, it's a mystery cable channel arm of the NBC family of networks
Ah, thank you. I'm assuming they show reruns of Matlock and The Father Dowling Mysteries.
With a name like Cloo, they have to work in showings of Clue The Movie right? And if they do, I will order that channel.
It's funny, I watch House and Monk and other NBC Universal shows on there (mostly just reruns of USA shows) but I saw one morning they had "'Til Death" airing. All I could think of (and Tweet) is the only mystery involved in that show was how it lasted as long as it did.
If Cloo shows Clue, the asshole who came up with the stupid name of 'Cloo' needs to get fired from their job. That looks ridiculous. ...worse than 'Tru TV'. No wonder our education system is for shit.
(edited by Cerebus on 26.3.12 2301) Forget it Josh... it's Cerebustown.
Originally posted by TorchslasherAh, thank you. I'm assuming they show reruns of Matlock and The Father Dowling Mysteries.
With a name like Cloo, they have to work in showings of Clue The Movie right? And if they do, I will order that channel.
It's funny, I watch House and Monk and other NBC Universal shows on there (mostly just reruns of USA shows) but I saw one morning they had "'Til Death" airing. All I could think of (and Tweet) is the only mystery involved in that show was how it lasted as long as it did.
If Cloo shows Clue, the asshole who came up with the stupid name of 'Cloo' needs to get fired from their job. That looks ridiculous. ...worse than 'Tru TV'. No wonder our education system is for shit.
(edited by Cerebus on 26.3.12 2301)
Methinks you're shooting your mouth off at the wrong guy. Blame trademark laws, because you can't trademark common words like "clue", "true" or "sci-fi". Those laws, along with lazy marketing types, begat Cloo, TruTV and Syfy.
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Methinks you're shooting your mouth off at the wrong guy. Blame trademark laws, because you can't trademark common words like "clue", "true" or "sci-fi". Those laws, along with lazy marketing types, begat Cloo, TruTV and Syfy.
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Hmmmm...
I've heard this before, and there is substantial support for it out there, including reports that the name SyFy came about partly because the previous name, Sci-Fi, couldn't be trademarked--but I'm pretty sure it isn't completely right. For example, quick Googling will show that both Unilever (for soap) and Mars (for chocolates) own trademarks on the word "Dove", which seems to me to be a pretty common word. It looks like Spike is a registered trademark for the cable channel, as well.
I don't know enough about the law to say exactly what the rules are. I'm thinking that something like "Cloo" can get a more universal trademark, meaning that not only can't someone else start a Cloo television channel, but also no one can use it for another product--as opposed to the Dove situation above, where companies can hold different trademarks for the same name in different classes of products, and while you or I couldn't make our own "Dove chocolates" (or probably even, say, Dove hard candies), we could probably get use Dove for some other type of product--Dove computers or Dove shoes, maybe. But the idea that you can't get a trademark at all for a common word seems to be wrong. (I only discovered this after posting the you-can't-trademark-common-words thing to a different forum and was told off by a lawyer.)
Originally posted by CerebusIf Cloo shows Clue, the asshole who came up with the stupid name of 'Cloo' needs to get fired from their job. That looks ridiculous. ...worse than 'Tru TV'. No wonder our education system is for shit.
(edited by Cerebus on 26.3.12 2301)
I blame texting. It's ridiculous sometimes what passes as conversational English.
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Originally posted by Peter The Hegemon I've heard this before, and there is substantial support for it out there, including reports that the name SyFy came about partly because the previous name, Sci-Fi, couldn't be trademarked--but I'm pretty sure it isn't completely right. For example, quick Googling will show that both Unilever (for soap) and Mars (for chocolates) own trademarks on the word "Dove", which seems to me to be a pretty common word. It looks like Spike is a registered trademark for the cable channel, as well.
I don't know enough about the law to say exactly what the rules are. I'm thinking that something like "Cloo" can get a more universal trademark, meaning that not only can't someone else start a Cloo television channel, but also no one can use it for another product--as opposed to the Dove situation above, where companies can hold different trademarks for the same name in different classes of products, and while you or I couldn't make our own "Dove chocolates" (or probably even, say, Dove hard candies), we could probably get use Dove for some other type of product--Dove computers or Dove shoes, maybe. But the idea that you can't get a trademark at all for a common word seems to be wrong. (I only discovered this after posting the you-can't-trademark-common-words thing to a different forum and was told off by a lawyer.)
When you make a trademark, you tell the patent office what categories of product you plan to sell. The trademarks for WWE go into amazing detail about the kind of things they might consider selling. There is indeed registrations for more than Dove chocolates and soaps. Besides Unilever (and Conopco, which must have been the name of the company before Unilever bought it) and Mars, there are patents in for Dove for the following categories of goods and services:
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But SciFi is different. In this context, SciFi is probably considered a descriptive mark, that is a word that simply describes the type of product that is for sale. When you use Sci-Fi in conjunction with movies, or books, or tv shows, it's just a word that describes what kind of movies, books, or TV shows you're watching, which isn't enough for a trademark. If you used SciFi for, I don't know, a brand of cheese, well that would be an Arbitrary Mark (like Apple Computers, the word doesn't describe the actual product at all), and you'd be ok.
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