tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9010436516214242401.post1163188263193671652..comments2023-11-27T00:31:59.096-08:00Comments on Robs World: Take Back Urban Homesteading PetitionRobj98168http://www.blogger.com/profile/12449968557883132353noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9010436516214242401.post-12623536965285399312011-03-21T14:53:55.781-07:002011-03-21T14:53:55.781-07:00I am just totally blown away that anyone would eve...I am just totally blown away that anyone would even think to try to copyright such a phrase. It's sort of like copyrighting the phrase "suburban housewife". Are you sure they have copyrighted it and not tradmarked it?<br /><br />But what really amuses me is that back in the 1980's I remember the term being used to mean something entirely different. At the time, here in Denver at least, there was a great deal of gentrification going on in crime-ridden urban neighborhoods. And when wealthy white people would move into a predominantly black urban neighborhood, they would call it "urban homesteading".<br /><br />Speaking as a person who had to completely dismantel a previous blog because someone threatened to sue me over the name (they claimed I used a word that they had trademarked) I'm really starting to think that this whole concept has gone entirely too far! Brings up images of Monsanto patenting seeds etc.<br /><br />I think I'll go apply for a patent on air and charge everybody to breathe!EcoCatLadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15704811319510740473noreply@blogger.com