Techdirt wrote before about the habits of the estate of Tolkien implementation aggressive, once in connection with the name "Tolkien", and once regarding the word "Hobbit". Looks like we're back in New Zealand

Brent Alloway

Victoria University has organized free public lecture on Homo floresiensis, a species closely related to humans who live on the island of Flores, but said he was not may call free public lecture "The Other Hobbit."

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copyright Hobbit by JRR Tolkien on the event on December 1, as a courtesy, but m ' said that lawyers AJ Park is Wellington property has not been authorized the use of the word.

It's ridiculous to many points of view. All of First, there is a free public lecture by a scientist - no commercial use whatsoever. Secondly, hominids in question are called "hobbits" by the scientific community almost since its discovery in 2004, so this is a well-established. Finally - and most interesting - on Twitter, Chris Puttick said that Tolkien was not even the first to use the term "hobbit" in this sense:

The word also appears in a long list of folkloric supernatural creatures in the writings of Michael Aislabie Denham (d.1859), printed in Volume 2 of "Denham zones" [ed. James Hardy, London: Folklore Society, 1895], a compilation of publications Denham dispersed. Denham was an early folklorist who concentrated on Northumberland, Durham, Westmoreland, Cumberland, the Isle of Man and Scotland.

Since the book was published in 1895 and died in 1859 Denham, who seems to put all your text - and thus the creature known as the "hobbit" - in the public domain. I wonder why Tolkien you say to that?
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