WTF!? (I clipped all of this from an article on Geeks of Doom)
The City of Batman Is Suing Christopher Nolan For ‘The Dark Knight’.
the “Batman” here being the small town of Batman, Turkey, and they are suing Christopher Nolan for using their name in the massive summer success, The Dark Knight.
..."The royalty of the name ‘Batman’ belongs to us … There is only one Batman in the world. The American producers used the name of our city without informing us,” [Mayor of Batman city, Hüseyin] Kalkan told the Doğan news agency… Mayor Kalkan, speaking to the Hürriyet Daily News and the Economic Review, said last year foreign media picked up on Batman and the city’s increasing suicide rates among women. He said a columnist asked why Batman’s mayor did not sue the movie Batman for royalties while struggling with economic problems. “We found this criticism right and started to look for legal possibilities of a case like that,” he said"...
On top of the 100% pure, unfiltered idiocy of all of this and the time period for which it’s occurring (you would think you’d take action when the character’s name was created) — it turns out that Batman, Turkey, was established in 1955. That’s 16 years after Batman’s first ever appearance in 1939.
Wow.
If they win, I’m freakin’ buying an island and naming it Superman.
Who’s coming with me?
This is just part of a larger article i thought everyone should see.
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