[HPforGrownups] Re: was Stouffer to be on ABC News ... Nimbus

[Doreen]

No: HPFGUIDX 14837

Once again, you cannot copyright a word-- only your original writing.
This is central to copyright law. Nimbus is a very common word, found
in the dictionary, and all writers have the right to use it. You can
trademark it for a specific product, but people still have the right
to use the word.

Unless Stouffer's Nimbus is a state-of-art RACING BROOM, I see no
significant similarity.

--Suzanne

What is Stouffer;s "Nimbus" anyway? I have lost track or interest... not
sure which. BTW, I hate when people refer to her by her initials. That just
smacks of equating her in even the teensiest tiniest way with our beloved
JKR.  I know that is the ultimate of picky, picky, picky, but today I feel
like being picky, picky, picky. And as for using Stouffer and the Nimbus,
state-of-the-art racing broom in the same sentence, hee hee ... I know my
thoughts on what I would do ... but that would not even be a  fit statement
for OT.

Doreen, humming, "Hey, you! Get off of my cloud!" .... Pink Floyd?


--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Doreen" <nera at r...> wrote:
> <snip>
> <<there is a character in her book called Nimbus who is some sort
of sky god
> and then the Nimbus 2000 in HP.>>
>
> Eh? I always thought that 'Nimbus' was a reference to a sort of
clous. The
> Something Nimbus, a storm cloud, I think. Since it sounds Latin, I
suspect
> it may well have been some sort of [lesser] god of clouds in the
Roman
> panthenon, and it'd make sense to JKR to name a broomstick after
him.
>
> Sofie,
> delurking with her 2 cents.
>
> Well, let's see ... there are Nimbus boats, Nimbus Records, Nimbus
> Technology & Engineering, Nimbus Kayaks, Nimbus Brewing Co., Nimbus
> Publishing in Canada, Golden Nimbus, an exporter of dental
equipment, (I
> wonder if the Grangers get their equipment from them?), a Club
Nimbus in
> Spain, Nimbus Software, and the list goes on & on & on....
>
> Cumulonimbus Thunderheads
>
> LOW-LEVEL...NIMBOSTRATUS CLOUDS
> (Also called nimbus or nimbo)
>
> This is something we all learned in grade school. Hardly a Stouffer
> original!
>
> Stouffer is indeed a prepackaged frozen meal, totally inferior to
the real
> thing: the wholesome, home-cooked, appetizing, appealing, and
satisfying
> Rowling.
>
> Doreen



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