Stephen Fry supports Hobbit Pub in copyright dispute
Fans of The Hobbit pub have set up a Facebook page to protest what they see as Hollywood heavy-handedness and yesterday, in a tweet, Stephen Fry lent his support to the protest. For more info click here.
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I hate to say it but I think that Fry is wrong in this case. The pub may have been around for 20 years, but if you log in to their website, you’ll see that they are clearly using copyrighted material from the LOTR movies in their promotional materials. They might have been alright if they hadn’t changed their focus after the movies were released.
http://www.thehobbitpub.co.uk/
I have to agree with PotbellyHairyfoot. While I hate for them to lose their name or anything, they have no right to use images and other material from the movies. That is definitely copyright infringement.
Perhaps if they just removed that they would be ok. I don’t know how stuff from the books work and such.