Keep calm and fuckoff
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- Projectile
This has now been trademarked
I'm hating this smarmy little cunt with a passion right now. How is it possible that something so common and widely used can be trademarked?
Will we now have to start watching everything we print, from Uncle Sam ripoffs to the most basic everyday phrases?
- d_rek0
so did he trademark that image, that phrase, the crown, what?
protections granted by trademarking something aren't all that great, just sayin'.
- Jimbo820
Can't listen to the audio at work, what's the jist?
How is it possible for him to copyright it when it wasn't his creation and has been in circulation for decades?
Automatic response without knowing any of the details = cunt
- Crown copyright expires after 50 years, so was in public domain.Fax_Benson
- jfletcher0
Well, I think the guy has a point at the start (he started a job using it), but he seems like a douche. Especially around "if I didn't do it, no one would know it, I basically created it"... or whatever he said at the end, it was similar. Seems a little full of himself.
But trademarking slogans or phrases... if someone else used "think different" or "just do it", it's pretty clear. Of course the difference is they build up those slogans and this guy seems to have grabbed it.
- also, loads of people have been doing it at the same time as him. He might just be biggerProjectile
- detritus0
I saw this the other day and wondered how on earth he could copyright something that was designed by someone else 70-odd years ago.
As far as I was aware, the 'original' was rediscovered in a second hand book shop up North, and it was they who had been vigorously protecting their ability to replicate it... but by that I thought keeping the artwork held tight.. not copyrighting it.
I just don't get it.
- Mind you, I forget - some slimey cunt copyrighted Smiley faces, didn't they?detritus
- Fax_Benson0
Oooh, they're just jumping on the back of something I came up with. nice try - you print something that isn't yours onto mugs and sell them to idiots.
Not sure what she's so upset about, though.
- agree... she was doing the same thing as him basically.jfletcher
- but she shouldn't be stopped. That's her issueProjectile
- caput580
This thing about copyrighting and patenting phrases is becoming insane. I bet that there are at least 5 infringements in this thread alone.
- ThePublics0
YOU FUCKING TWONK™
- detritus0
- Turns out the original DOESN'T use Gill Sans. Balls.detritus
- I just registered the Gill Sans version. Pay me.neandersthal
- lowimpakt0
i just registered this thread.
yiz can fuck off out of it.
- yeah, but you're not interested in the actual meaning of the thread. It's just greedFax_Benson
- hans_glib0
seems his time might be limited... executive summary below
1: Designed in wartime
2: Rediscovered in Barter Books, they sell "KCACO" tat for years
3: Cuntface trademarks it
4: Trademark is now being fought: http://www.freelanceuk.com/news/…
- detritus0
Mark Coop - Talentless parasite?
- 23kon0
KEEP
CALM
AND
CARRY
ANN
- scruffics0
mark coop sounds like a sorry twat
- popfodders0
fucking lol
- popfodders0
BLING™
- Hombre_Lobo0
Im gonna copyright the phrase "her majesty the queen" and say i created it.
What a plagiaristic bumbaclart that guy is.
- animatedgif0
Phrase is shitty anyway, the recent posters using it/referencing it are shitty.
The whole thing is shitty. Who owns it? Who gives a fuck? Why fight over a pile of shit?
- stewdio0
I'm actually in favor of that guy. I'm not into his merchandise, but he played by the rules, created a business, and he's defending his territory. I absolutely believe him when he says these other cats (who by the way are trying to cash in the EXACT way he did) would never have given the phrase or its visual expression any mind until he came along and promoted the hell out of it. He's absolutely in the right.
- Jimbo820
I'm gonna trademark 'Mind the gap'.
I'm gonna make a fortune bitches.
Can we just get one thing straight, was he the FIRST person to print those posters (post war days obviously) because he said he started his business 4 years ago, I'm sure I saw those posters longer than 4 years ago.
- no the bookshop that found the original copy started doing it back in 2000 I thinkhans_glib