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...announcement posted early Monday morning on his website, film critic Roger Ebert said he is taking his thumbs and walking away from the TV show he helped build into an international brand. "After 33 years on the air, 23 of them with Disney, the studio has decided to take the program in a new direction," he wrote. "I will no longer be associated with it." Ebert's announcement arrived only hours after co-host Richard Roeper, of the Chicago Sun-Times - his on-air companion since 1999 - announced that he too would be leaving At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper...
...disputed that on his website shortly afterward: "Contrary to Disney's press release, I did not demand the removal of the Thumb [trademark]. They made a first offer on Friday which I considered offensively low. I responded with a counter-offer. They did not reply to this, and on Monday ordered the Thumbs [trademark] removed from the show." Ebert went on to say that he would allow the thumbs to be used on the show during negotiations...
...telling anecdote from his second round. After a double bogey that could have taken him out of the running, he was walking to the next tee box when a fan reached over the ropes, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry about it, Paddy. On Monday I have to go back to being a plumber...
...little guy too. Tiffany & Co., the retail jewelry giant, is in a similar quandary after a federal court in New York City ruled on Monday that Internet companies are not required to police trademark violations that appear on their websites. The case involved the online auctioneer eBay, which Tiffany had sued after counterfeit jewelry was sold on eBay's site. The judge did say that companies like Tiffany can do the policing themselves and order websites to remove online material that flouts trademarks. But even for big firms, patrolling an ocean as vast as the Internet for intellectual-property shenanigans...
...King is due to announce his plans on next Monday. That is the Belgian national day, which commemorates the coronation of the country's first King, Leopold I, in 1831. The day is usually celebrated with a grand military parade through the center of Brussels. And although Belgians have weathered such crises many times before, they will also wonder how much longer they can expect to be treated to such army displays...