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CommonStar posted...

This is a good thing no? WWE already trademarked these, but now he owns it himself. I think all wrestlers should be able to own the things they make. I rather they own it than some corporation like the WWE.

GuerrillaSoldier posted...

i'm sure there are limitations in the clauses that limit it to wrestling related things. like, WWE now can't sell "smell what the rock is cooking" t-shirts without the rock getting a cut because he owns it now. this doesn't mean if a game has the line "smell what the rock is cooking" that they suddenly owe WWE and the rock money.

anyway, good for him. no reason why wwe should own it, he's big enough to have control over it himself.

This. This is the point. We know this to be true, because it's clear WWE wasn't randomly collecting money every time somebody said "blue chipper" or "rock bottom" in media, for example.

Decrying The Rock here is to argue corporations should be able to own characters that individual people create, instead of the people who actually create them.