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by cyberninja15 871 days ago
Woah, this is wild. Never knew how aggressive the copyrights were for *Zilla.
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When you consider the most recent Godzilla film, Minus One, is the 37th in that franchise, and was not only nominated for an Oscar, and may be it's most lucrative, you can see why Toho would aggressively police that copyright.

Minus One is legit a great film.

No, I can't. That makes it even less reasonable.

Edit: on the other hand, they apparently elected to use Godzilla as their logo, which kind of ruins the otherwise considerable unrelatedness.

Wonder how the people of Zillah Washington feel about it
I'm fairly sure that the antiquity of the Book of Genesis trumps any conceivable trademark claim!
It’s not called Boardzillah, so maybe not much at all.
Meant more about Godzilla copyright holders being litigious
Ah. I assume their trademark doesn’t extend to cities, but no doubt someone’s issued a legal threat and retracted it at least once!