The FG is now fully legal in copying headlines

[Taro Toporific]

Court denies copyright for Web news headlines (Mainichi--Mar 25)
A damages suit filed by the Tokyo head office of the Yomiuri Shimbun against an Internet service firm that used the newspaper's headlines without permission was rejected in the Tokyo District Court ...denied that the headlines were creative expression. "These headlines were created within 25 characters, and either stated objective facts, or used only very short qualifying words, and cannot be described as creative expression"

[lostintranslation]

mansai! long live the holy copy neko! praise be to allah!

[Taro Toporific]

[/b]http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040325p2a00m0dm002000c.html... "These headlines were created within 25 characters, and either stated objective facts, or used only very short qualifying words, and cannot be described as creative expression"

Obviously, the Court doesn't read Marvin.
Marvin's recent headlines

Tokyo maidens kissing would-be princes get warts

Osaka's economic revival lined with passionate pink cloud

Early blossoms pop cherry-loving fun

Starving boy dies clawing at the walls

Bloomer sellers cry foul over crusty crackdown

Police force's finest found out as pedophilic pig

Modern-day samurai come to blows with blow-up weapons

'Pile Driver' gets hole new meaning as pro-wrestling goes porn

Women bang unabashed behind love hotel doors

Nothing trivial about livelihood of nurses

Libidinous listeners lash out on audacious audio porn

Manga artists spill red ink to scratch a living

Japan's seamen stained as recruiting video paints soldiers hard-core

Japan jumps into Nagoya's fleshy flashy fashion

Carpet munchers open door to mouth cancer

Lustful customers seek to pin lady pro wrestlers to the mat

Freaky peep shows that break the rules of attractions

Gold-diggers raise the bar on Mr. Right

TV stations go bananas over hairy host

NHK slams the door on bold boy coming out of the closet

Nostalgic school trips pass the test of time

Porno prima ballerina stretches more than the imagination

Hard-up gobby granny leaves blushing cop weak at the knees

Brainiac bath brothel savior blowing more than bubbles

Swimsuit siren moans over amorous auditions

Pot of gold from crock of crap? I'll drink to that!

[Marvin Feltcher]

Much as I'd love to claim them, I don't write the headlines.
Incidentally, TIME magazine this week ran a picture with a convenience store shelf filled with Japanese glossies, including Asahi Geino where the headlines "Sneak Footage of Married Women Going at it in Love Hotels" and "Maria Anzai -- From Little Fairy to Pubes on Parade." I bet that's the first time copy like that has made it into that rag.

[Taro Toporific]

Much as I'd love to claim them, I don't write the headlines.
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Ohhhhhh. This is worse than being told that there's no Easter Fairy or the Santa Bunny doesn't exist.

Santa Bunny VS Easter Fairy

[Steve Bildermann]

Much as I'd love to claim them, I don't write the headlines.

Well of course Marvin *you* don't write the headlines but perhaps you'd tell us how long after drinking the elixir does *he* write the headlines?

[Marvin Feltcher]

It gets worse...nearly all of the best headlines are actually written by a former advertising man, one of who's biggest claims to fame is that he was brutally slapped in the face by his boss. This guy is a true wit who comes up with some classics.