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“Jersey City welcomes Super Bowl XLVIII,” declares the mural in tall, silvery letters and Roman numerals between outsize images of the Vince Lombardi Trophy, which is given to the winning team. The mural also has two images that originally looked like the National Football League’s logo, a blue shield with a football and stars at the top and red letters in the center — an N, an F and an L.

But the center of the shield has been painted over, obscuring the letters. Abdul Gonsalves, perhaps better known as the graffiti artist Paws21, said he had painted the letters when he painted the mural. So why did they disappear?

“You would have to get in contact with City Hall,” Mr. Gonsalves said.

Jennifer Morrill, a spokeswoman for the city government, said the letters were painted over because of concerns about using the N.F.L. logo without the league’s permission.

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Isn’t it a bad idea to release two movies with similar titles in such short order? Asked that in an interview in August, Gary Barber, MGM’s chief executive, said he was not worried. “MGM has the title locked up,” he said with a smile. “They will have to change theirs.”

But the rival companies are not budging. “If ever there was a title available for general use, it is Hercules,” a spokesman for Lions Gate said on Friday. “It is not protectable.” Dozens of films with Hercules in the title have been released over the years, from “Hercules and the Big Stick” in 1910 to “Hercules,” Disney’s animated musical, in 1997.

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– http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/25/business/media/hercules-and-the-rival-studios.html?ref=todayspaper

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While Blok worked on her design, she and her colleagues agreed that the logo, like the software, should be open-sourced. “We decided it would be a collaborative logo that everybody in the world could customize,” she says. “That was pretty daring.” Most companies, of course, defend their trademark from copycats, and million-dollar lawsuits have been filed over the rights to corporate insignia. This one would remain free.

In the years since, the Android logo has been dressed up as a ninja, given skis and skateboards and even transformed into a limited-edition Kit-Kat bar. Blok (who is now creative director at Edmodo, a social network for students and teachers) says that creating the logo was like raising a child: “You give a life to this individual, and then they have a life of their own.”

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– http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/magazine/who-made-that-android-logo.html?ref=todayspaper

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