2/9/2024 0 Comments Print your own flat stanley![]() ![]() Which brings us to today, where Brown’s estate is protesting the trademark application and wants to take control of the website to sell merchandise associated with the musical/movie (though they have no problem with Hubert continuing the project using the domain name).In 2006 Hubert - the teacher, not the author - (on the advice of his lawyer) files for a trademark on Flat Stanley.The estate also sells the rights to Universal to make a Flat Stanley movie. Somewhere around 2006 Brown’s estate sells the rights to Flat Stanley to a group that makes a musical around the now popular character.In 2002, Brown writes another book: Stanley Flat Again. ![]() ![]() Brown, the author, is thrilled about this, and visits with Hubert and his family.Hubert sets up a website tracking the results, which starts to bring in tons of attention (along with Stanley showing up with famous people and in famous places).Inspired by a single page in the book where Stanley mails himself to a friend’s place in California, Hubert begins having his students create and decorate their own Flat Stanley cutouts, and send them to friends or relatives who live far away, asking the recipients to take photos with the cutout, and “send him back with a letter describing Stanley’s adventures.”.In 1995, Dale Hubert, a 3rd grade teacher, found a copy of the book Flat Stanley which was “obscure and nearly out of print.”.In 1964, one of the books in the series, called Flat Stanley involves Stanley being “flattened,” and living the life of someone as flat as a sheet of paper.Jeff Brown, an author, wrote a series of childrens’ books about a character named Stanley Lambchop in the 1960s.The details here are a bit nuanced, and while my initial reaction was to favor the teacher over the author’s estate (which the article’s author clearly does as well), there’s one little tidbit that’s totally glossed over in the article that suggests this is mostly the teacher’s fault. Reader John Lownie writes in with yet another example of legal battles gone mad over trademark and copyright, involving a teacher doing some creative things with a character in a book and the estate of an author fighting over who owns the “rights” to a fictional character named Flat Stanley. Wed, Jul 30th 2008 01:13pm - Mike Masnick ![]()
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