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AMC Gets Mad at Mad Men Tweets

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AMC (American Movie Classics) has a show called "
After all, people might have thought that it was really the characters coming out of the television and coming to life like some

This is like if rights-owners ordered me to stop pretending to be a Ninja Turtle with my friends on the playground when I was a child. You would think the Mad Men/Twitter issue would be more a debate of lameness than a legal matter, but apparently AMC didn't see it that way...at least at first.

Now AMC has decided to just forget about it.

Perhaps they just realized how ludicrous the whole thing seemed. If AMC's stance had been justified, any rights-owners of any show could demand that handles for any social media sites, forums, instant messengers, and even email addresses based on fictional character names be terminated. Anyhow, it seems cable-television drama character-themed role-playing is safe for another day.

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