query: who owns the copyright to the smiley face

pos: Smiley 4, although some computer fonts miss some characters, and some characters cannot be reproduced by programs not compatible with Unicode. It also appears in Unicode's Basic Multilingual Plane. The rights to the Smiley trademark in one hundred countries are owned by the Smiley Company. Its subsidiary SmileyWorld Ltd, in London, headed by Nicolas Loufrani, creates or approves all the Smiley products sold in countries where it holds the trademark. The Smiley brand and logo have significant exposure through licensees in sectors such as clothing, home decoration, perfumery, plush, stationery, publishing, and through promotional campaigns. The Smiley Company is one of

pos: Smiley "has failed to establish that the smiley face has acquired secondary meaning or that it is otherwise a protectible trademark" under U.S. law. In June 2010, Wal-Mart and the Smiley Company founded by Loufrani settled their 10-year-old dispute in front of the Chicago federal court. The terms remain confidential. In 2016, Wal-Mart brought back the smiley face on its website, social media profiles, and in selected stores. Smiley A smiley (sometimes called a happy face or smiley face) is a stylized representation of a smiling humanoid face that is a part of popular culture worldwide. The classic form designed by

pos: Emoticon citing a likelihood of confusion between the Loufrani smiley and a smiley face Walmart had been using since 1990. The USPTO eventually sided with Walmart and rejected The Smiley Company's application, due to the widespread use of smiley face designs. Seeking to prevent Walmart from using any smiley face design, Nicolas Loufrani next sued Walmart in federal court in 2009, while claiming that his smiley face was "readily distinguishable" from Walmart's. The case was closed in 2011 when the two parties agreed to settle out of court. The terms of the settlement were undisclosed, but Walmart continued to use its

pos: The Smiley Company prevent Walmart from using any smiley face design, Nicolas Loufrani next sued Walmart in federal court in 2009, while claiming that his smiley face was "readily distinguishable" from Walmart's. The case was closed in 2011 when the two parties agreed to settle out of court. The terms of the settlement were undisclosed, but Walmart continued to use its smiley design intermittently and returned to using it in a major marketing role in 2016. The Smiley Company The Smiley Company is a brand licensing company that holds the rights to smiley face symbols in over 100 countries (notably not including the

pos: The Smiley Company images. In 2005, the company announced the creation of the Smiley World Association, later renamed Smiley Fund, as a charitable arm of the company, to which it donates 10 percent of its profits. In 1997, the Smiley Company filed a trademark application for its smiley with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. In 2001, Walmart opposed the registration, citing a likelihood of confusion between the Loufrani smiley and a smiley face Walmart had been using since 1990. The USPTO eventually sided with Walmart and rejected the Smiley Company's application, due to widespread use of smiley face designs. Seeking to

pos: The Smiley Company The Smiley Company The Smiley Company is a brand licensing company that holds the rights to smiley face symbols in over 100 countries (notably not including the United States). The company is considered one of the top 100 licensing companies in the world and creates products including textiles, puzzles, party goods, stationery, automobile accessories, and toys for licensed brand partners and retailers. The company's signature smiley, which closely resembles the iconic smiley face created by U.S. graphic artist Harvey Ross Ball in 1963, was created by journalist Franklin Loufrani in 1971 as a way to indicate to readers of the

pos: The Smiley Company French newspaper France-Soir which stories held good news. Before the campaign started, in October 1971, Loufrani registered his smiley face with the French trademark office. By the 1990s, Franklin and his son Nicolas Loufrani held trademarks for the symbol in around 70 countries and had licensed the smiley to brands including Levi Strauss & Co. In 1996, the Loufranis founded the Smiley Company in London, England, built around the Smiley brand. In 1997, Nicolas created hundreds of emoticons, including a 3D smiley logo. Some sources incorrectly claim that Nicolas was the first to create portrait-orientation emoticons, but various prior usage

pos: Smiley simply called the design "Smiley" and launched The Smiley Company. In 1996 Loufrani's son Nicolas Loufrani took over the family business and built it into a multinational corporation. Nicolas Loufrani was outwardly skeptical of Harvey Ball's claim to creating the first smiley face. While noting that the design that his father came up with and Ball's design were nearly identical, Loufrani argued that the design is so simple that no one person can lay claim to having created it. As evidence for this, Loufrani's website points to early cave paintings found in France (2500 BC) that he claims are the

pos: Emoticon often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile – some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket, which I would now like to trace in reply to your question." In 1971, a French journalist, Franklin Loufrani, created a smiley logo to mark good news in the French newspaper "France Soir". Loufrani was the first person to trademark the symbol, in 1972. Later, in 1996, Loufrani established The Smiley Company with his son, Nicolas Loufrani. Nicolas developed hundreds of different emoticons, including 3D versions. His designs were registered at the United States Copyright Office in 1997

pos: Emoticon and appeared online as .gif files in 1998. These were the first graphical representations of the originally text-based emoticon. He published his icons as well as emoticons created by others, along with their ASCII versions, in an online Smiley Dictionary in the early 2000s. This dictionary included over 3,000 different Smileys and was published as a book called "Dico Smileys" in 2002. The Smiley Company has trademarked its version of the smiley face in over 100 countries. In 1997, The Smiley Company filed a trademark application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. In 2001, Walmart opposed the registration,

neg: Harvey Ball of the image brought smiles to the faces of the executives, who paid him $45 for his creation. The use of the smiley face became part of the company's friendship campaign whereby State Mutual handed out 100 smiley pins to employees. The aim was to get employees to smile while using the phone and doing other tasks. The buttons became popular, with orders being taken in lots of 10,000. More than 50 million smiley face buttons had been sold by 1971, and the smiley has been described as an international icon. Ball never applied for a trademark or copyright of

neg: Yahoo! Answers staff avatar. A user then questioned the potential trademark/copyright infringement of using such an avatar. At that time, the photo was replaced with the Yahoo! Answers green smiley face. At the beginning of 2006, the green smiley face was replaced by the cartoon Yamster clad in a karate uniform. , the history of Yamster, complete with photos of the toy, was available on the Yahoo! Answers Team Vietnam blog. Several celebrities and notables have appeared on Yahoo! Answers to ask questions. These users have an "official" badge below their avatar and on their profile page. During the 2008 U.S. Presidential

neg: Smiley Face (film) Awards, in Los Angeles, on October 13, 2007, for her role in "Smiley Face". Smiley Face (film) Smiley Face is a 2007 comedy film written by Dylan Haggerty and directed and co-produced by Gregg Araki. It stars Anna Faris as a young woman who has a series of misadventures after eating a large number of cupcakes laced with cannabis. The supporting cast includes Danny Masterson, John Krasinski, Adam Brody, Jayma Mays, Marion Ross, Jane Lynch, and Roscoe Lee Browne in his final film. "Smiley Face" was the ninth feature film directed by Araki. The story describes an eventful day in

neg: Mr. Cranky October 2001, a "guest reviewer" named Mr. Smiley appeared. Mr. Smiley is a mirror opposite of the Mr. Cranky personae: all reviews are hyperbolically positive. Mr. Smiley is a stereotypical smiley face smelling a pink Freesia flower, appearing every year near Halloween. Consistent with the theme, the Smiley character has a rising five-step scale going from one smiley face to the "Prozacerrific!" Happy Pill. Mr. Cranky, who takes the form of a self-gagging purple frowny-face, appears on the website "Shadowculture's Mr. Cranky Rates the Movies". The character was created for a Colorado-based website named XOR. Katzman, the primary writer, and

neg: Smiley Face (film) Smiley Face (film) Smiley Face is a 2007 comedy film written by Dylan Haggerty and directed and co-produced by Gregg Araki. It stars Anna Faris as a young woman who has a series of misadventures after eating a large number of cupcakes laced with cannabis. The supporting cast includes Danny Masterson, John Krasinski, Adam Brody, Jayma Mays, Marion Ross, Jane Lynch, and Roscoe Lee Browne in his final film. "Smiley Face" was the ninth feature film directed by Araki. The story describes an eventful day in the life of Jane F, an unambitious young actress who enjoys smoking cannabis and

neg: LOL Smiley Face LOL Smiley Face "LOL Smiley Face" (styled as "LOL :-)") is a song by American recording artist Trey Songz. It features rappers Gucci Mane and Soulja Boy and serves as the second single from Songz' third studio album, "Ready". The artists co-wrote the song with its producers Troy Taylor and Tony Scales. "LOL Smiley Face" is an R&B song featuring bouncy, poppy synths, and lyrically refers to sexting and other electronic multimedia messaging. The song was released as the second single from Songz's third album "Ready" on August 24, 2009. The song received generally positive reviews from critics, who noted

neg: Smiley face murder theory Smiley face murder theory The Smiley face murder theory (variations include Smiley face murders, Smiley face killings, Smiley face gang, and others) is a theory advanced by two retired New York City detectives, Kevin Gannon and Anthony Duarte, that a number of young men found dead in bodies of water across several Midwestern American states over the last decade did not accidentally drown, as concluded by law enforcement agencies, but were victims of a serial killer or killers. The term "smiley face" became connected to the alleged murders when it was made public that the police had discovered graffiti depicting

neg: Smiley face murder theory out for either money or the notoriety and press attention. Another parent, Kathy Geib, is working with Piehl and others, but their main goal now is just to get police to take a compulsory second look at cases of alcohol-related drownings. Bibliography Smiley face murder theory The Smiley face murder theory (variations include Smiley face murders, Smiley face killings, Smiley face gang, and others) is a theory advanced by two retired New York City detectives, Kevin Gannon and Anthony Duarte, that a number of young men found dead in bodies of water across several Midwestern American states over the last

neg: The Mighty B! single mother, Hilary, who owns and operates a coffee shop called Hilary's Café. Bessie has an "imaginary friend"; Finger, which is her index finger with a smiley face on her left hand. Many recurring characters appear alongside the Higgenbottom family, including the Honeybee scouts; Penny is Bessie's clumsy, dim-witted, obese best friend, who loves taffy. Although she and Bessie are best friends, Penny also shows loyalty to Portia and Gwen. Portia is a bratty, and snobby Honeybee scout, whose mother is the troop leader. Along with the business-minded Gwen, Portia is often opposing Bessie or tries to humiliate her. Bessie

neg: Smiley (2012 film) her fall. Gallagher began working on "Smiley" after performing in some episodes of the "Totally Sketch" series on YouTube. As he was producing the film himself, "Smiley" had a small budget and Gallagher was active in various different parts of the film such as advertising and seeking MPAA approval. Gallagher initially debated using stockings with a smiley face painted on it as Smiley's mask, but discarded the idea because it "just wasn't scary enough". He chose to go with the final mask after imagining a "guy who stitched an emoticon into his own face and thought, 'Wow, that's really creepy.

neg: Smiley Smiley A smiley (sometimes called a happy face or smiley face) is a stylized representation of a smiling humanoid face that is a part of popular culture worldwide. The classic form designed by Harvey Ball in 1963 comprises a yellow circle with two black dots representing eyes and a black arc representing the mouth () On the Internet and in other plain text communication channels, the emoticon form (sometimes also called the smiley-face emoticon) has traditionally been most popular, typically employing a colon and a right parenthesis to form sequences such as codice_1, codice_2, or codice_3 that resemble a smiling

neg: Smiley face curve he said "your balance comes together and you don't really need it." Kip Bradford of Expert Village emphasizes that the live sound engineer must not employ smiley face curves when setting up a sound reinforcement system. Bradford advises that the graphic equalizer should instead be used to "tune the system to the room", taking account of the combined frequency response of the room and the sound system to ensure that all audible frequencies have equal presence. Some audio equipment manufacturers have accommodated the user by engineering a smiley face curve into a product. dbx, Inc. offers several smiley face curve

neg: Smiley been found in Karkamış, Turkey. After it was pieced together, the team saw that it had what appeared to be a large smiley face painted on it. The Danish poet and author Johannes V. Jensen was amongst other things famous for experimenting with the form of his writing. In a letter sent to publisher Ernst Bojesen in December 1900 he includes both a happy face and a sad face, resembling the modern smiley. A commercial version of a smiley face with the word "THANKS" above it was available in 1919 and applied as a sticker on receipts issued by the

neg: Smiley face curve Smiley face curve A smiley face curve (also known as "mid scoop") in audio signal processing, is a target frequency response curve characterized by boosted low and high frequencies coupled with reduced midrange frequency power. This curve is often attained by users employing a graphic equalizer which shows a graphic representation of a "smile" using its frequency band faders to describe a curve that sweeps upward at the left and right sides. Smiley face curves have had a popular appeal with some car audio enthusiasts, disc jockeys, electric bass guitar players, home stereo owners and live sound reinforcement system operators.

neg: Smiley face curve down to its maximum reduction point, with nearby frequencies reduced in the form of a mid scoop. Some concert sound mixers employ the smiley face curve as a tool to help them gain initial control of a sound system. Even with recorded sound, the smiley face curve has its backers. Will Shapland of Floating Earth location recorders said in 2004 that his basic mixing technique for the recordings of the Isle of Wight Festival was to use "a bit of a 'smiley-face' EQ curve on the output" until he got a handle on a new band's mix, at which point

neg: Smiley as part of a promotion by New York radio station WMCA beginning in 1962. Listeners who answered their phone "WMCA Good Guys!" were rewarded with a "WMCA good guys" sweatshirt that incorporated a happy face into its design. Thousands of these sweatshirts were given away. The WMCA smiley was yellow with black dots as eyes, had a slightly crooked smile, and had no creases at the sides of the mouth. According to the Smithsonian Institution, the smiley face as we know it today was created by Harvey Ross Ball, an American graphic artist. In 1963, Ball was employed by State

neg: Smiley face curve noise. Empeg Car, a digital media player, includes a "Loudness Control" feature that is described as adding a ""smiley face" curve automatically"" at low sound levels but which is used to lesser and lesser degrees as the car sound system's volume is increased. This describes an equal-loudness contour circuit. Smiley face curve A smiley face curve (also known as "mid scoop") in audio signal processing, is a target frequency response curve characterized by boosted low and high frequencies coupled with reduced midrange frequency power. This curve is often attained by users employing a graphic equalizer which shows a graphic representation

neg: Smiley face murder theory killer theory "ludicrous", arguing that the evidence does not fit what is known about serial killers. Brown also believes that the smiley face images found in some of the cases are likely nothing more than coincidences based upon making a guess at where the body entered the water and searching a wide area until an example of smiley face graffiti can be found. "It's not an unusual symbol," she told Matt Smith of the Minneapolis-based newspaper "City Pages". "If you look in any area five miles square, I bet you could find a smiley face." The Federal Bureau of Investigation

neg: Evil Ernie killing Norman Lowell, a lawyer who led Ernie against a Satanic cult performing rituals with connections to FastWay, a fast food franchise, while planning to sacrifice a child to demon Zabudel who granted wealth to their leader. All the while Ernie is chased by Dr. Price's daughter Layna who wants revenge partnered with detective Rig Dannon who's willing to catch Ernie for the million dollar reward. Throughout the series, Ernie's companion is Smiley, a wise-cracking smiley face button usually attached to the lapel of his jacket. Smiley serves as the conduit for the arcane energy that gives Ernie his powers,

neg: Smiley the 100 biggest licensing companies in the world, with a turnover of US$167 million in 2012. The first Smiley shop opened in London in the Boxpark shopping centre in December 2011. In 1997, Franklin Loufrani and Smiley World attempted to acquire trademark rights to the symbol (and even to the word "smiley" itself) in the United States. This brought Loufrani into conflict with Wal-Mart, which had begun prominently featuring a happy face in its "Rolling Back Prices" campaign over a year earlier. Wal-Mart responded first by trying to block Loufrani's application, then later by trying to register the smiley face

neg: Author that one owns his/her work. Technically, someone owns their work from the time it's created. An interesting aspect of authorship emerges with copyright in that, in many jurisdictions, it can be passed down to another upon one's death. The person who inherits the copyright is not the author, but enjoys the same legal benefits. Questions arise as to the application of copyright law. How does it, for example, apply to the complex issue of fan fiction? If the media agency responsible for the authorized production allows material from fans, what is the limit before legal constraints from actors, music, and

neg: Smiley first depictions of a smiley face. Loufrani also points to a 1960 radio ad campaign that reportedly made use of a similar design. In the UK, the happy face has been associated with psychedelic culture since Ubi Dwyer and the Windsor Free Festival in the 1970s and the electronic dance music culture, particularly with acid house, that emerged during the Second Summer of Love in the late 1980s. The association was cemented when the band Bomb the Bass used an extracted smiley from "Watchmen" on the centre of its "Beat Dis" hit single. The earliest known smiley-like image in a

neg: Smiley face curve when it is performing at low sound pressure levels, then the curve should gradually flatten out as it gets louder. The origin of the smiley face curve has been attributed to the search for more bass and treble response from loudspeakers that did not extend as low or as high as desired, especially in the 1970s and 1980s. It has also been seen as either a useful or a detrimental tool for shaping the sound of a bass guitar. Many cars which have a graphic equalizer have been observed to have it set as a smiley face curve which emphasizes

neg: Smiley face curve presets in their digital graphic equalizer product line called DriveRack. Jim Dunlop offers a direct box intended for bass players that includes a preset labeled "color" which engages a smiley face curve. Neither of these products prevent the user from adjusting the equalizer based on the sound that is actually heard rather than relying on a predetermined visual image. Alpine Electronics has offered for sale a product for car audio systems that works to counteract any smiley face curve that was applied to a car's factory OEM sound system, along with an analysis feature that adjusts for road and vehicle

neg: LOL Smiley Face and fifth top twenty entry on the chart. Songz and Drake performed the song on music video show "106 & Park" on September 2, 2009 as a part of a medley with "I Need a Girl" and "Successful." Instead of releasing a typical video for the song, the accompanying clip features fans singing and dancing along to the clip, as well as tweeting and texting the title. The video was released online on November 25, 2009. Source LOL Smiley Face "LOL Smiley Face" (styled as "LOL :-)") is a song by American recording artist Trey Songz. It features rappers Gucci

neg: Smiley face curve Though the graphic equalizer was intended to tailor a system's response to match existing venue and performance conditions, the smiley face curve is often applied before the user has heard the system's frequency response. The smiley face curve is roughly analogous to the frequency response of human hearing as charted in the equal-loudness contour, and has been compared to loudness compensation circuitry in that it increases the relative power of high and low frequencies without increasing the midrange power. In order for a sound system to be heard properly by humans, it should have an equal-loudness contour applied to it

neg: The Sandman: Worlds' End stories from other religious traditions such as Taoism are included. There are also subtle homages to "Watchmen": the deranged woman who kills his fiancée wears a smiley face button; and the panel which shows a zombie version of herself has a blood spot on the smiley face button identical to the one in "Watchmen". Prez's backstory as a watchmaker also mirrors that of Dr. Manhattan. The fifth story is told by a 'prentice' () from the necropolis Litharge, a city devoted to the practice of various methods of burial, derived from multiple cultures. Petrefax tells of his apprenticeship, and relates

neg: Smiley face murder theory and good students, and most were white. Gannon and Duarte have theorized that the young men were all murdered, either by an individual or by an organized group of killers. The term "smiley face" became connected to the alleged murders when it was made public that Gannon and Duarte had discovered graffiti depicting a smiley face near locations where they think the killer dumped the bodies in at least a dozen of the cases. Other police forces that have investigated the deaths dispute the conclusion that the cases are linked. The La Crosse, Wisconsin, police department, which was in charge

neg: Smiley Face (film) "freakishly committed performance as Jane F. [that] suggests Amy Adams’s princess from "Enchanted" dropped into a Cheech and Chong movie". Andrew O'Hehir wrote in his review for "Salon", ""Smiley Face", has a wonderful performance by Anna Faris and one of the all-time great stoner monologues in movie history". In her review for "Cinematical", Monika Bartyzel wrote, "Araki's comedy gives us the best of many comedic worlds in an incessantly funny, easily-quotable serving. From discussions of Marxism to love of lasagna, "Smiley Face" serves it all — with some weed and a very, very stoned smile". The review of the New

neg: Online identity identity on eBay. Sony objected, asserting that the character is Sony's intellectual property, and demanded the removal of the auction; under the terms of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), eBay could have become a party to a copyright infringement lawsuit if it failed to comply. Left unresolved is a fundamental question: Who owns an online identity created at a commercial Web site? Does an online identity belong to the person who created it, or to the company that owns the software used to create the identity? Online identity Internet identity (IID), also online identity or internet persona, is

neg: Have a nice day Private Idaho" ironically ends with the parting phrase "have a nice day", which for the fourth time invokes the smiley face. Smiley faces represent optimism and appear to ask the characters, who are characterized as "marginal figures", how nice their days are. While traveling to Idaho, the protagonists' motorcycle breaks down, and one of the characters, Mike, gazes at the sun on the horizon and links it with the motto "have a nice day". He says, "I've been on this road before. Looks like a fucked-up face. Like it's saying 'have a nice day' or something." In the 1994 film

neg: Smiley face curve use of amplifiers with a built-in smiley face curve and amplifiers that offer a handful of graphic equalizer filters so that the user can make the necessary adjustments when appropriate. Gallien-Krueger makes an instrument amplifier that produces a classic smiley face curve in its default voicing. However, it includes tone controls that can be adjusted so that the amplifier is within 0.5 dB of a neutral, uncolored frequency response. Some bass players decry the attenuation of midrange frequencies, holding that the midrange area centered on 500 Hz will make the bass instrumental line stand out more satisfyingly in the mix.

neg: Smiley Cookies Smiley Cookies The Smiley cookie is a trade-marked cookie that is created and distributed by the Eat'n Park Corporation of Homestead, Pennsylvania through their restaurants & online business; Smileycookie.com . The signature Smiley Cookie was created in 1986 and coincided with the addition of in-store bakeries at its locations. The Smiley Cookie was first produced by Warner's Bakery, a small bakery in Titusville, Pennsylvania. It was trademarked in 1987. The Smiley Cookie became so popular that it was added to the logo of Eat'n Park. A competitor, Kings Family Restaurants produced the "Frownie", a brownie decorated with a frowning face.

neg: Copyright troll Copyright troll A copyright troll is a party (person or company) that enforces copyrights it owns for purposes of making money through litigation, in a manner considered unduly aggressive or opportunistic, generally without producing or licensing the works it owns for paid distribution. Critics object to the activity because they believe it does not encourage the production of creative works, but instead makes money through the inequities and unintended consequences of high statutory damages provisions in copyright laws intended to encourage creation of such works. Both the term and the concept of a copyright troll began to appear in the

neg: Copyright troll framework. Copyright troll A copyright troll is a party (person or company) that enforces copyrights it owns for purposes of making money through litigation, in a manner considered unduly aggressive or opportunistic, generally without producing or licensing the works it owns for paid distribution. Critics object to the activity because they believe it does not encourage the production of creative works, but instead makes money through the inequities and unintended consequences of high statutory damages provisions in copyright laws intended to encourage creation of such works. Both the term and the concept of a copyright troll began to appear in

neg: Harvey Ball he started his own business, Harvey Ball Advertising, in 1959. He designed the smiley in 1963. The State Mutual Life Assurance Company of Worcester, Massachusetts (now known as Hanover Insurance) had purchased Guarantee Mutual Company of Ohio. The merger resulted in low employee morale. In an attempt to solve this, Ball was employed in 1963 as a freelance artist, to come up with an image to increase morale. What he created was a smiley face, with one eye bigger than the other. In less than ten minutes, Harvey Ball came up with the simple yet world-changing smiley face. The simplicity

neg: Smiley itself; Loufrani in turn sued to stop Wal-Mart's application, and in 2002 after the issue went to court, where it would languish for seven years before a decision. Wal-Mart began phasing out the smiley face on its vests and its website in 2006. Despite that, Wal-Mart sued an online parodist for alleged "trademark infringement" after he used the symbol (as well as various portmanteaus of "Wal-", such as "Walocaust"). The District Court found in favor of the parodist when in March 2008, the judge concluded that Wal-Mart's smiley face logo was not shown to be "inherently distinctive" and that it

neg: Acid house 'drop-in', such as Phuture's "Slam". English acid house and rave fans used the yellow smiley face symbol simply as an emblem of the music and scene, a "vapid, anonymous smile" that portrayed the "simplest and gentlest of the Eighties’ youth manifestations" that was non-aggressive, "except in terms of decibels" at the high-volume DJ parties. Some acid house fans used a smiley face with a blood streak on it, which "Watchmen" comics creator Alan Moore asserts was based on Dave Gibbons' artwork for the series. The origin of this usage was the bloodied smiley from "Watchmen" on the label of "Beat

neg: Cummins v Bond claimed copyright on the resulting text because it was addressed to him and typed by him. After two days of court hearings, the court decided that it had no jurisdiction over the afterlife and therefore the copyright holder and sole author is Cummins because she was the one who held the pen. Cummins v Bond Cummins v Bond was a 1927 copyright legal case in England in which it was decided that if a spirit or ghost dictates a work to the living through a medium, then the medium owns the copyright, and not the spirit or a subsequent transcriber.

neg: Smiley's People necessary to blackmail Karla and force him to either defect or be exposed. Unexpectedly, Enderby gives Smiley approval, and secret and deniable funding, to mount an operation to secure the evidence from Grigoriev and close the trap on Karla. While Smiley does research at the Circus, Esterhase sets up a covert team in Bern to keep Grigoriev under observation. Smiley then visits his estranged wife, Ann, and makes a point of cutting all relations with her as he prepares to face down his greatest foe. Smiley recognises how ruthless he must become if he is to be Karla's nemesis. In

neg: Guy Smiley an Elevator Operator. It was to teach kids to face the front of an elevator. In this sketch, "Mr. Smiley" (as Grover calls him) is also voiced by Jim Henson, but with a different voice than that of his game show personality. In one movie theatre skit with Bert and Ernie, using Smiley as a one-line extra, the character is puppeted by Richard Hunt. He also appeared in "On Vacation With Guy Smiley", in which he tried to photograph various animals in the jungle, but his loud voice kept scaring them off. At least until a tiger (Martin P. Robinson)

neg: Harvey Ball the smiley and earned just $45 for his work (US $315 in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars). State Mutual, similarly, did not make any money from the design. Ball's son, Charles, is reported to have said his father never regretted not registering the copyright. Telegram & Gazette reported Charles Ball as saying "he was not a money-driven guy, he used to say, 'Hey, I can only eat one steak at a time, drive one car at a time.'" The phrase "Have a happy day" became associated with the smiley although it was not part of Ball's original design. Philadelphian brothers Bernard and

neg: Have a nice day "Forrest Gump", title character Forrest is jogging down the street when a T-shirt salesman approaches him, asking him to put his face on T-shirts as inspiration to people. While the men are jogging, a truck splashes mud into Forrest's face, and the salesman gives him a yellow shirt to wipe the mud off. Forrest rolls up the shirt and hands it back, saying "have a nice day". Unrolling the shirt, the man finds a smiley face outlined on it. Thus the film credits Forrest Gump with inventing the "Smiley" logo and the "have a nice day" slogan. In September 2005,

neg: Liberal Fascism way it doesn't." Before being published, alternative subtitles included "The Totalitarian Temptation from Mussolini to Hillary Clinton" and "The Totalitarian Temptation from Hegel to Whole Foods". The smiley face with an Adolf Hitler-style mustache on the cover of the book is a reference to comments made by comedian George Carlin on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" that "when fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jackboots. It will be Nike sneakers and smiley shirts. Smiley-smiley." When Goldberg was a guest on "The Daily Show" to promote his book,

neg: Have a nice day Bon Jovi released the album "Have a Nice Day". The album cover contains a red smiley face which guitarist Richie Sambora stated echoes its title song. Sambora explained that "It's [like] 'Have a nice day; get out of my face'—therefore the smirk. To me, it's much more of a Clint Eastwood 'Have a nice day' than a smiley face 'Have a nice day.'" The phrase "have a nice day" is typically spoken by service employees or clerks to customers at the end of a transaction. A mercantile method of expressing "thank you" as in "thank you for shopping with us"

neg: Smiley (2012 film) face by stitching his own eyes shut and carved his mouth into a smile) before they themselves are killed. A college student named Ashley (Gerard) becomes roommates with Proxy (Papalia). Ashley decides to go to a party where she meets Zane (Allen), Mark (Turner) and Binder (Dawson), who is mocked by his classmates for having reported a case of pedophilia, earning him the nickname Pedobear. One night Ashley and Proxy test out the Smiley myth with a random person online. After typing "I did it for the lulz" three times, to their horror, the stranger is murdered. Proxy convinces Ashley

neg: Smiley face when viewed after rotation through 90 degrees. "Smiley" is also sometimes used as a generic term for any emoticon. The smiley has been referenced in nearly all areas of Western culture including music, movies, and art. The smiley has also been associated with late 1980s and early 1990s rave culture. The plural form "smilies" is commonly used, but the variant spelling "smilie" is not as common as the "y" spelling. Around 2017, a team of archaeologists led by Nicolò Marchetti of the University of Bologna pieced together the fragments of a Hittite pot from approximately 1700 BC that had

neg: Cartrain had made; he said, "I met Christian Zimmermann [from DACS] who told me Hirst personally ordered action on the matter." A spokeswoman for Hirst said: "Damien is not suing Cartrain. This is a straightforward issue of copyright. Damien owns the copyright to the diamond skull and its image and if it is reproduced without his permission DACS are instructed to deal with this on his behalf." Jimmy Cauty has supported Cartrain, claiming he has a right to use existing images to make a new artwork. Copyright lawyer Paul Tackaberry compared the two images and said, "This is fairly non-contentious legally.

neg: Norman Smiley Saturday Night" when he told fans that he was European and that, as such, his name should be pronounced phonetically as "Nor-MAHN Smi-LAY." He would insult the fans who mispronounced his name at establishments such as Waffle House and Piggly Wiggly. He then feuded with Chavo Guerrero, Jr., on one occasion destroying Guerrero's hobby horse mascot, Pepè, by feeding it into a wood chipper on the 11 January 1999 episode of "WCW Monday Nitro". Despite Smiley's attempts to be a heel, fans seemed to enjoy his "big wiggle" and comedy antics, effectively turning him face. In 1999, Smiley entered the

neg: Facebook, Inc. v. Power Ventures, Inc. are deficient because it is unclear which portions of Facebook's website are alleged to have been copied. Facebook argued that it need not define the exact contours of the protected material because copyright claims do not require particularized allegations. Since Facebook owns the copyright to any page within its system (including the material located on those pages besides user content, such as graphics, video and sound files), Power Ventures only has to access and copy one page to commit copyright infringement. Facebook conceded that it did not have any proprietary rights in its users' information. Power Ventures users, who own

neg: Copyright law of the United Kingdom exists. Database right exists if a substantial amount of work was required by the maker of the database to obtain the data in the database, to verify the data, or to present the database's contents. Database right is independent of any copyright in the contents of the database. The maker of a database is the person who compiles the database. The maker of a database is the first owner of any database right arising. As with copyright, if an employee makes a database, then the employer is the first owner of any database right. The Crown owns a database right

neg: Smiley face curve low and high frequencies. Graphic equalizer use leading to speaker damage is common — large amounts of bass boost and treble boost can distort music and damage loudspeaker drivers. Ideally, the equalizer can be set once to compensate for the combination of the response of the speakers and the car's acoustic characteristics. A smiley face curve can indicate that a car's sound system is lacking both high and low frequency response. Certain styles of electric bass playing, especially slapping, tend to augment the midrange frequencies. Various compensations have been developed to counteract excess midrange response in the instrument, including the

neg: LOL Smiley Face speaking on the conceptual basis of "Ready", Songz said, "You think about a record like 'LOL Smiley Face,' it's something real simple, but when you look at the title or listen to the record, you're like, 'Wow.' That's something great from a songwriter's perspective. I'm just trying to make hits and classic records that people can vibe to and live their life." In an interview with BallerStatus, Songz commented on his thoughts of making a remix of the song, stating, "I think there's going to be a remix for that song, because a lot of people dig it. A lot

neg: Audio Home Recording Act top for non-featured musicians and vocalists (distributed by the AFM/SAG-AFTRA Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund, jointly operated by American Federation of Musicians and SAG-AFTRA). The remaining 96% is split 60/40 between two sets of "interested copyright parties". Interested copyright parties, a heretofore unknown category in copyright law, is defined by the act as featured artists receive 40%, and the owners of the right to reproduce sound recordings (an individual or company, mostly the record label, who owns the master sound recording) receive 60%. These parties receive royalties through the Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies (AARC) according to the extent

neg: Asda (last season before the creation of the FA Premier League). In December 1997, the Spice Girls licensed their name and image to Asda for the creation of over 40 different Spice Items for Christmas 1997, including goods such as party supplies, official merchandise, and Spice Girl branded kids' meals in the stores' restaurants. The Spice Girls reportedly earned £1 million from the deal. In the smiley face "rollback" campaign, also used by Walmart, a CGI smiley face bounced from price tag to price tag, knocking them down as customers watch. The focus of these campaigns is to portray Asda as

neg: Smiley it in September 1970 in a campaign to sell novelty items. The two produced buttons as well as coffee mugs, t-shirts, bumper stickers and many other items emblazoned with the symbol and the phrase "Have a happy day" (devised by Gyula Bogar), which mutated into "Have a nice day". Working with New York button manufacturer NG Slater, some 50 million happy face badges were produced by 1972. In 1972, Frenchman Franklin Loufrani became the first person to legally trademark a use of a smiley face. He used it to highlight the good news parts of the newspaper "France Soir". He

neg: Richard I. Morimoto protein homeostasis. These novel therapies are designed to treat multiple degenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington’s disease, cancer, and type II diabetes. In a YouTube video published in 2009, members of the Morimoto lab showed "C. elegans" forming a smiley face on a culture plate. The video description jokes that when a post doc in the lab told them to smile, the "C. elegans", lacking faces as individuals, formed the smiley face as a group, suggesting that they are intelligent, have ears, and can work in groups. In reality, the footage is playing in reverse: the "C.

neg: Dirtnap (comics) with a red smiley face that would appear on the victims. However, in trying to flee from Wolverine he absorbed a rat and took on its form permanently, the smiley face now being on his back. He still retained his powers, but the rat became his default form. Dirtnap (comics) Dirtnap is a fictional mutant character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. His first appearance was in "Wolverine" #95. Dirtnap was a mutant with the ability to absorb living beings and take on their forms. He first encountered Wolverine when he absorbed a young boy, and he

neg: Art Bell left with my Family. I hope my friends understand..." In June 2013, Bell announced on his Facebook page that his official website, artbell.com, would be relaunching. On July 10, 2013, a red, white, and blue textual representation of a smiley face was displayed on the website. The site's favicon is a picture of a grey alien. On July 11, 2013, the smiley face was replaced with a red, white, and blue Morse code script that translated to "Wanna take a ride?". On July 29, 2013, Bell officially announced a return to the airwaves with a launch date of September 16,

neg: Post Malone artists who have influenced him. In recognition of the 2nd Amendment, he has a tattoo on his triceps of a snake encoiled around a rifle. The face of deceased rapper Lil Peep is tattooed on his arm. Post also has a number of face tattoos, including a line of barbed wire across his forehead, a smiley face and a Playboy bunny under his right eye, the words "Stay Away" tattooed above his right eyebrow, "always tired" under both of his eyes and a dagger on the left side of his face. Post has a tattoo of U.S. president John F.

neg: LOL Smiley Face at teenage girls. Ken Capobianco of "The Boston Globe" said that "Ready" was built about the "popping tracks" of "LOL Smiley Face" and "Say Aah". Although Mark Edward Nero of About.com called the song "gimmicky", he said it was "catchy" and "addictive", commenting that the song "actually deserves creativity points: it's a silly, lighthearted song that's not meant to be taken seriously." Tyler Lewis of PopMatters called the song silly, and in an album review, commented, "The less said about “LOL :)”, the better", calling the listening experience "frustrating." Ajitpaul Mangat of Tiny Mix Tapes said that in the song,

neg: Evil Ernie as Neurotech. Despite Price's protests, Ernest was submitted to the Neurotech device. During the treatment, Lady Death used her telepathic link with him to cause the machine to explode, killing Ernest. When a nurse placed a smiley face pin intended to be a gift upon his release next to his corpse, Lady Death used it as a conduit for her arcane energy, transforming Ernest into the powerful, undead monster that would be known as Evil Ernie. Evil Ernie hereafter, along with his partner 'Smiley' (a psychotic smiley badge, which was once his pet rat) set about to cause 'Megadeath', which

neg: Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride is a 1940 American Western film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and June Storey. Written by Winston Miller, based on a story by Betty Burbridge and Connie Lee, the film is about a singing cowboy who inherits a meat-packing plant and must face stiff competition from a beautiful business rival. Singing cowboy Gene Autry (Gene Autry) and his sidekick Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette) work on a ranch owned by Ann Randolph (June Storey). Gene is unaware that he has just inherited the Belmont Packing Company. While Gene and Frog

neg: The Right (comics) distract their victims) faceplates resembling a smiley face (in some sources these suits were subsequently nicknamed "Smiley-Face Battlesuits"). They also employed scientists and inventors such as Nanny and Ani-Mator. At first, Hodge employed more subtle methods to contribute to the growing misery in Warren's life when the latter lost his natural wings to Harpoon during the Mutant Massacre, having their remains eventually wholly amputated. He subsequently sabotaged Warren's plane to rid himself of his proclaimed nemesis, and during the occasion of Warren's funeral he openly declared his true allegiance with the Right. The Right troopers subsequently initiated bloody terror acts

neg: Harvey Ball the 1990s. The BBC broadcast a radio documentary on 4 February 2012 called "Smiley's People" that covered the story of the smiley. This is currently available for playback. On July 18, 1998, around the 35th anniversary of the design's inception, Ball appeared at That's Entertainment to meet fans and sign smiley pins and art. At this appearance Ball was shown copies of the graphic novel "Watchmen" issue #1, which featured a notorious image of a smiley face with a splatter of blood across it. Store Manager Ken Carson was quoted as saying Ball seemed amused to see it on the

neg: Have a nice day be shot for bringing this here." By around 2000, "have a nice day" and "have a good day" were taken metaphorically, morphing into synonyms of the parting phrase "goodbye". Abigail Goldman of the "Los Angeles Times", wrote that the smiley face and the expression "have a nice day" "helped to define the '70s". In the early 1970s, Philadelphian brothers Murray and Bernard Spain designed and sold products including bumper stickers and coffee mugs that each contained the yellow smiley face, usually attributed to Harvey Ball. They later changed the phrase to "Have a nice day". The 1991 film "My Own

neg: Smiley face murder theory a smiley face near locations where they think the killer dumped the bodies in at least a dozen of the cases. The response of law enforcement investigators and other experts to Gannon and Duarte's theory has been largely skeptical. As recently as 2008, Gannon and Duarte were examining evidence going back to the late 1990s that they believe connects the deaths of 45 college-age males, whose dead bodies were found in water in 11 states, often after leaving parties or bars where they were drinking. The men, according to the former detectives, often fit a profile of being popular, athletic,

neg: Smiley Face (film) York Daily News states that "Not since Sean Penn's Jeff Spicoli in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" has an actor so thoroughly dominated the screen while pretending to be in a chemically altered state." In the review of "Los Angeles Times" it is argued that "Gregg Araki's delirious "Smiley Face" is an unabashed valentine to Anna Faris, an opportunity for the actress to show that she can carry a movie composed of often hilarious nonstop misadventures. No matter how outrageously or foolishly Faris' Jane behaves, she remains blissfully appealing—such are Faris' fearless comedic skills." However, S. James Snyder, in his

neg: Smiley face curve University of Iowa professor and bass player Dan Berkowitz has observed that the smiley face curve as applied to bass played within a blues or R&B band can make it hard for bandmates to play off the bass line. Berkowitz recommends an upside down smile curve: a "frown" curve with its peak centered at 500–800 Hz. Guitarists and bassists can choose to equalize their instrument with an effects pedal. Several products exist for this purpose such as a 10-band MXR-branded equalizer offered by Dunlop Manufacturing which includes instructions for a "Metal Distortion" setting that reduces 1,000 Hz, a midrange frequency,

neg: Mister Smile Mister Smile, whose head is a yellow smiley face. Mr. Smile stamps his face onto sheets of paper, causing the features to disappear from his face completely. The features always regenerate though, as he slips the stamped sheets of paper into envelopes. Each group of characters receives one of these envelopes in the mail. They have been invited to visit Mr. Smile, who is presumably a celebrity. Although the doctor's procedure goes awry, leaving the now normal-sized chicken stuck inside of the monkey's head, all three are delighted to receive their invitation. At the party, Mr. Smile hands out autographs,

neg: Animal-made art blank canvas to work with, Bini grabs a brush with his mouth and begins adding colors to create an abstract work. The copyright to an artistic work is typically held by its author. In cases where the artistic work was created by an animal, intellectual property analysts Mary M. Luria and Charles Swan have argued that neither the human who provides the equipment used to create the work, nor the human who owns the animal itself (when applicable), can hold the copyright to the resulting work by the animal. In these cases, the animal's work was not an intellectual creation

neg: Corbeil Bus Corporation the 1st Premier or the EMC3900 outside of Canada. For 1994, Corbeil entered a joint venture with Indiana-based manufacturer Carpenter, manufacturing single rear-wheel buses marketed through its deal network (similar to a joint venture between Blue Bird and Girardin); the joint venture lasted through 1998. In 1995, Corbeil changed its company emblem, shifting from a vertical EMC to a large smiley face on the roofline of the bus, with the design becoming one of the most widely recognized manufacturer emblems in the transportation industry. WIth the addition of the "smiley face", the EMC 1st Premier was renamed the Corbeil Conventional.

neg: Smile (Dami Im song) party shop where she blows up smiley face balloons and gives them out to people in the streets. The video then ends with a shot of a smiley face balloon. Following the video's release, some fans noted that its concept was similar to the video for country duo O'Shea's song "Bad Day Good" (2014). O'Shea's video also features random acts of kindness as the duo are seen walking around a town paying for people's petrol and parking. When asked by "The Daily Telegraph"s Sydney Confidential about the similarities between the two videos, Im stated: "I had no idea something similar

neg: Neighbors from Hell (American Horror Story) mark of the clowns. Inside, they happen upon Mr. Guinea being microwaved and subsequently exploding. Ally confronts and threatens the Wiltons. They deny their involvement. Afterwards, Ally and Ivy discover the Wiltons' home has been branded with a smiley face as well, but Ally neglects to warn them. Next, Ally confronts the operators of the chemical truck and discovers that they wear smiley face masks. Kai unlocks the Wiltons' dark secrets in individual interrogative sessions. Meadow feels neglected and lonely while Harrison secretly wishes she was dead. Ally and Ivy try to convince Detective Samuels that the Wiltons are responsible

neg: LOL Smiley Face "we have a genuinely novel pop music moment: a booty call (an R&B staple) that only this generation can relate to." Mangat also commended the song's beat, chorus, and Soulja Boy's cameo, commenting, "In the end, it is all somehow apropos." Chris Ryan of MTV Buzzworthy said the song had an "irrefutably catchy melody", and complimented the song because of the appearance of Gucci Mane and Soulja Boy, stating, "it's incredibly playful, as any song about texting should be." Melanie Fried of "Billboard" called "LOL Smiley Face" "the most absurdly appealing, tech-savvy song of the year to date", commenting "Anyone

neg: Smiley Face (film) lives in a Los Angeles apartment with her nerdy, somewhat disturbing roommate Steve. Jane's fateful day begins when she unknowingly consumes an entire plate full of cannabis-laced cupcakes. Realizing her mistake, she makes a list of tasks she must achieve, and how she plans to make them happen. What follows is a relentless stream of disasters caused by Jane's intoxication. "Smiley Face" premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, followed by a very small theatrical release; in Los Angeles it had a week long run at the Nuart Theatre in Santa Monica. The film was released to DVD on January

neg: The Howling (film) and producer Michael Finnell received the opportunity to make the film "Gremlins" (1984) for Steven Spielberg. That film references "The Howling" with a smiley face image on a refrigerator door. Eddie Quist leaves yellow smiley face stickers as his calling card in several places throughout "The Howling". Also Jim Krell's character as news reporter Lew Landers appears in both "The Howling" and "Gremlins", which suggest both movies share the same universe. The plot and characters of the film deviate from the original novel in many ways: Notable for its semi-humorous screenplay, director Joe Dante put many in-joke references in the

neg: Have a Nice Day (Bon Jovi song) Have a Nice Day Tour", "Live at Madison Square Garden", and "Greatest Hits – The Ultimate Video Collection". The song was featured in the film "Win Win". The music video for "Have a Nice Day" was created by Deutsch, an advertising agency. The video centers around what the creative director of Deutsch, Eric Hirshberg, describes as a 'pissed off smiley face', which appears on, among other places, a mobile phone and a crop circle. The video was designed as part of a larger campaign to promote Bon Jovi's album "Have a Nice Day" – the album features the smiley face

neg: Smiley Buffalo Steam Roller Company in Buffalo New York. The round face was much more detailed than the one depicted above, having eyebrows, nose, teeth, chin, facial creases and shading, and is reminiscent of "man-in-the-moon" style characterizations. Ingmar Bergman's 1948 film "Port of Call" includes a scene where the unhappy Berit draws a "sad" face closely resembling the modern "frowny", but including a dot for the nose in lipstick on her mirror, before being interrupted. In 1953 and 1958, similar happy faces were used in promotional campaigns for the films "Lili" and "Gigi". The smiley was first introduced to popular culture

neg: Smiley face murder theory of eight of the investigations, released an official statement reiterating their original conclusions that the deaths were accidental drownings of inebriated men and stating that no smiley face symbols were found in connection with any of these cases. The Center for Homicide Research in Minneapolis, Minnesota, published a research brief that also attempted to scientifically refute the theory. In March 2009, Lee Gilbertson, a criminal justice faculty member at St. Cloud State University, voiced his support for the theory on an episode of "Larry King Live" in which the alleged murders were discussed. Criminal profiler Pat Brown calls the serial

neg: Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute which have been presented to over 40,000 people in Western North Carolina. The principal radio research instruments at PARI are two 26 meter radio telescopes and a 4.6 meter radio telescope named Smiley. These have been adapted for precision tracking of celestial radio sources using multiple frequencies. Smiley is used for remote classroom teaching of astronomy by students in the US and worldwide. Smiley was given its pleasant face around 1982 as a greeting to overflying foreign surveillance satellites. PARI is home to the Astronomical Photographic Data Archive (APDA), a site to help preserve astronomical photographic plates. These plates were

neg: YouTube copyright issues since fair use was not protecting his videos from copyright claims, pointing out that he now felt incentivized to use as much copyrighted material in his videos as possible, the opposite of what YouTube's copyright policies were intended to achieve. YouTube copyright issues When a person creates an original work that is fixed in a physical medium, he or she automatically owns copyright to the work. The owner has the exclusive right to use the work in certain, specific ways. In response to a lawsuit from Viacom, video sharing service YouTube developed a copyright enforcement tool referred to as Content

neg: The Real Housewives of Orange County (season 8) Dubrows argue about Terry's lack of excitement and support for Heather which leaves Terry using the word "divorce." Gunvalson embraces being a grandmother to Briana's newborn son Troy. Gunvalson's relationship with Ayers becomes increasingly turbulent, especially when Gunvalson's son-in-law drops a bomb about Ayers. Gunvalson recently had plastic surgery on her face, but it soon becomes the talk center of gossip. Rossi reconsiders marriage and beginning a family after her relationship with Smiley becomes more stable due to Smiley getting work at a radio station. Later in the season Rossi takes the plunge and proposes to Smiley in a big

neg: Red John argument, and taunts him as he paints his signature smiley-face on her face with Partridge's blood. However, Jane and the authorities locate Lisbon, who seems to have been left unscathed by Red John, confusing her and Jane. As Jane ponders how Red John could have such intimate knowledge into his past and memories, he concludes that Red John must have had access to someone with such knowledge: Sophie Miller, Jane's old psychiatrist, who helped him regain his mental health after he suffered a breakdown in the wake of his family's murder. After repeated attempts to communicate with Sophie fail, Jane

neg: Cummins v Bond Cummins v Bond Cummins v Bond was a 1927 copyright legal case in England in which it was decided that if a spirit or ghost dictates a work to the living through a medium, then the medium owns the copyright, and not the spirit or a subsequent transcriber. Miss Geraldine Cummins was a medium who sold her services professionally. She used a pen to write down a message by a 1900-year-old spirit, Cleophas, which was addressed to an architect, Mr Bligh Bond, who was present in the session. After she wrote it, Bligh Bond typed the message himself. Mr Bond

neg: PlayStation: The Official Magazine 2012 issue. In the beginning, "PSM" had an anime-style mascot named "Banzai Chibi-Chan", created and illustrated by Robert DeJesus. He was featured prominently in early issues and even inspired apparel and other accessories. He was later dropped, with the supposed reason being that the character was too childish and gave some the wrong impression about the magazine's intended audience. A smiley face featuring an eye patch with a star on it was also used, but it too was eventually dropped after the magazine went through redesign in later years. The "PSM" Smiley Face was notable for its appearance throughout the

neg: Smiley Face (film) review for the "New York Sun", wrote, "If this is meant as a lighthearted change of pace for Mr. Araki, after "Mysterious Skin", then perhaps he took things too far in the opposite direction. This isn't just light and fluffy; it floats away". The film-critics aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes listed the film receiving 66% favorable reviews, with the consensus that, "Although many of the jokes have been done before, Anna Faris's bright performance and Gregg Araki's sharp direction make "Smiley Face" more than your average stoner comedy." Faris won the "Stoner of the Year" award at "High Times" magazine's Stony

neg: Prismatic World Tour inspired dress, a long with a short, silver glittery cape. The dress had a butterfly over the chest, and the bottom of the dress is see through, also containing butterflies imprinted on it. She also adorns a multi-colored wig, featuring pastel blues, pinks and greens.The "Throwback" act has Perry emerge on stage wearing a yellow smiley face push up bra, leggings with yellow piece signs on them, as well as a yellow skirt. For "It Takes Two", Perry wears a Yin-Yang crop top over her smiley face bra, and a large Yin-Yang dress that inflates as she rises on the

neg: TEACH Act TEACH Act The Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2002 (part of Public Law 107-273), known as the TEACH Act, is a section of an Act of the United States Congress. The importance of the TEACH Act stems from the previous copyright laws that allow educators to copy documents or use copyrighted materials in a face-to-face classroom setting. Because of the growth of distance education that does not contain a face-to-face classroom setting revisions to these laws, particularly sections 110(2) and 112(f) of the U.S. Copyright Act, were needed. Signed into law by President George W. Bush on November

neg: Monkey selfie copyright dispute one hand on the tripod when this was going on, but I was being prodded and poked by would be groomers and a few playful juveniles who nibbled at my arms" In a November 2017 interview with the radio show "This American Life", Slater said that he was holding the tripod with his fingers when the images were taken. American and British intellectual property lawyers Mary M. Luria and Charles Swan said that because the creator of the photograph is an animal and not a person, there is no copyright on the photograph, regardless of who owns the equipment with

neg: Dudnikov v. Chalk & Vermilion Fine Arts, Inc. in a similar pose. Defendant Chalk & Vermilion Fine Arts, Inc. is the American Agent for British corporation SevenArts, who owns the copyright for the Erté works of interest. Upon discovering the sale of the Betty Boop fabric, Chalk & Vermilion filed a request with eBay through their Verified Rights Owner Program (“VeRO”) for a notice of claimed infringement. Under this program, eBay will terminate an item’s auction when it receives such a notice from a VeRO member, who certifies under penalty of perjury that it believes an item infringes its copyright. After receiving the NOCI notice from eBay canceling