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   From: no.spam@no.spam   
      
   On 11/1/2012 5:10 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:   
      
   > "The word 'hobbit' has certainly been seeing a lot of legal action   
   > lately, thanks to the Saul Zaentz Company and Middle-earth Enterprises,   
   > which own trademarks on various Tolkien terms.   
      
   The public domain status of _Aesop's Fables_ has just reached its   
   2500 year expiry time limit and I hereby claim the copyright.   
      
   That means from now on anyone who says "sour grapes",   
   "the lion's share" or "cry wolf" etc has to pay me a royalty.   
      
   ps. I have also recently acquired all rights to the phrase   
   "hold the fort" from the heirs of William Tecumseh Sherman.*   
   Since Frodo uses this expression in FotR, the Tolkien Estate,   
   Saul Zaentz Company and Middle-earth Enterprises owes me big time.   
      
   * Sherman is credited with coining the phrase in a signal   
   to a besieged fort during the Battle of Allatoona Pass, 1864.   
      
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