Posted: Mar 14, 2012 4:29 pm
Paul G wrote:I'm the only one who thinks it's a rip off then? This isn't like the McDonald's cases where it just happens to be the same name.
Of course it's a rip off. It's clearly basing the pub on the book. And if Tolkien was suing them for infringement of copyright, I'd definitely be on his side. I think the problem people have is that the pub is being sued by a random American company that had absolutely no creative input into any aspect of The Hobbit.
I don't know what you mean by the font though. There's a million different copies of The Hobbit, and none of them seem to look like the logo of that pub (which should be a matter for the individual publisher that designed the cover anyway).