Philip K. Dick's Daughter Threatens Lawsuit Over Google Phone

that sounds like a good idea, lazyhag please send your note to walt disney, the jacksons and bloomturds daughter.

First of all the lazy hag needs to get off her bon bon eating big butt and get a job. To sit there and cry ohh they are using a name out of my dead daddys book. oh BOOO FRIGGIN HOOOO.. Get a life you money sucking hag. This is clearly what is wrong with our world now days. Every one looking to make a fast dollar off some one else when they do not deserve it. This is like the people who got fat from eating McDonalds food 8 times a day for 5 years of their life and then sat around and did nothing. OMG McDonalds made me fat.. NO YOU MADE YOURSELF FAT. Now Is A Dick (oooppppsss) wants to get fat off money that she does not deserve in any way shape or form. Wake up people Suing people for no reason should make the courts put you in jail for 20 years for wasting their time over nothing. You are so low you could sit on a dime and your feet would not even touch the ground. Mz. Isa Dick Hackett needs to get a life and take a fast bus ride back to reality.

Actually, he wrote some great books. Others, not so great. He was nothing else, if not prolific and ultimately influential. But, some of his, which I've read, is among the best American writing I've ever read.

In my opinion, Man in the High Castle and Ubik were great books, but Valis was once of the biggest messes I've ever read (though others enjoy it). I can understand why some people may not enjoy his writing, but I would suggest you read a couple of his books before you dismiss him completely.

I only read his pamphlets.

He might have written some great books, but he wrote so many that just started out fine and went nowhere. Good books should compel one to read cover to cover.

True. Many of his books really don't end as interestingly as they begin.

Also, sorry for all of my typos in my post.

I thought philip k dick was a joke name.

Like Biggus Dickus or Sillius Soddus?

- Naughtius Maximus

Or Big Fat Harry Schlong.

There's also a Nexus shampoo, while we're on the subject, so the little missy has her work cut out for her: how to put the touch on the evil corporate Salon Industrial Complex.

I just Googled that. It's actually Nexxus shampoo. However, maybe she can sue Kramer for calling the intersection of First and First the "nexus of the universe".

'Oh, Mama!'

Omg you're right! I'll never buy shampoo in Chinatown ever again.

George Lucas holds a trademark on the term "droid"

whether or not PKD estate owns trademarks, its questionable that more than one reference is used.

so the logic is reasonable, calling the nextphone bladerunner, with a feature called skinjob...

sounds like she should have waited, theres plenty of technology companies that make their payroll on trademark infringement cases without actually churning out product, she could have just waited a little longer so she doesnt seem like sean young on a bender...

Exactly the reason that copyright should end on the death of the original creator. Philip Dick wanted desperately to be a combination of Kurt Vonnegut and Harlan Ellison -- he was not even close.

Cicso has had a line of switches called "Nexus" for a while now. The latest is colloquially known as the Nexus 7. Haven't heard of any suits being filed against them.

There are probably thousands of products from tech to hair products that use the name Nexus. But Google is the only one you can sue that will get your name in the papers.

What a dick move.

Psh, she should be honored that her dad's work is still influential.

People may not like over-long copyrights, but if they are to mean anything this is a good case to prove it. There seems to be little doubt that Google picked the name of the OS and the phone based on Dick's writings. Even if they meant it as a homage, they failed in nott getting in touch with Dick's estate.

Philip K. Dick missed out on coining the term "android" by about 700 years, and the word "nexus" dates back almost 400 years now. At least Dick's daughter is living up to the family name.

Wrong: nexus is a Latin term far older than 400 years. Please tell me you did NOT get your information from Wikipedia or Wiktionary.

I wasn't aware that Mr. Dick invented the word android.

I know Droid is a Lucasfilm trademark (hence the "used with permission" on the VZW ads).

Android is a much older word. The OED puts it at about 1879.

I heard her next lawsuit will be against anyone who uses her father's name to refer to a penis.

+1

One of the best death scenes ever.

While there may be some basis with Nexus One, the term "Android" has certainly become a word that most people use freely without directly associating it to this book/film.

do these copyrights make sense? Her father used the word Nexus 6 in a book. Is it fair that his daughter who had no hand in the novel get paid because now 40 years later they've used a similar term?

who benifits from that besides her?

Got to love people trying to cash in on their dead family.

It's also not lost on anyone that while your father wrote some great books he probably didn't make that much money of them, which is what you're essentially angry about.

Philip K. Dick did not write great books. He wrote a lot of books and threw out a lot of ideas, but wasn't a great writer.