{"id":65627,"date":"2012-11-22T00:32:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T05:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=65627"},"modified":"2012-11-22T00:33:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T05:33:22","slug":"geek-dads-erik-wecks-has-some-insight-into-the-tolkien-estates-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/11\/22\/65627-geek-dads-erik-wecks-has-some-insight-into-the-tolkien-estates-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Dad&#8217;s Erik Wecks has some insight into the Tolkien Estate&#8217;s lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_58841\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58841\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ChristopherTolkien.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-58841 no-lazyload\" title=\"ChristopherTolkien\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ChristopherTolkien-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Tolkien<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"intro\">You may have read recently that the Tolkien Estate has brought a lawsuit against Warner Bros., regarding Warner Bros.&#8217; marketing rights for<em> Lord of the Rings<\/em> and <em>Hobbit<\/em>\u00a0products.\u00a0 Our friend Erik Wecks has written a great piece for Geek Dad at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/geekdad\/2012\/11\/tolkien-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wired.com<\/a>, clarifying some of the issues at stake and suggesting why the Tolkien Estate may have felt the need to take such action.\u00a0 For fans of Tolkien&#8217;s work, just how far is too far &#8211; when does a franchise become a sell out?\u00a0 Check out the excellent article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/geekdad\/2012\/11\/tolkien-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have read recently that the Tolkien Estate has brought a lawsuit against Warner Bros., regarding Warner&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,35,496,498,148,149,152,154,392],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-book","category-lotr-books","category-production","category-production-studios","category-hobbit","category-lotr","category-tolkien","category-tolkien-estate","category-warner-bros"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ChristopherTolkien.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-h4v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65638,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65627\/revisions\/65638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}