Keep calm and fuckoff
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- monospaced0
This the font?
- nope.bumdrizzle
- no the C is wrong. As is the Rhans_glib
- and the M.bumdrizzle
- CALLES0
- sellingCALLES
- .. in America if I'm not much mistakenProjectile
- Projectile0
markcoop @ gmail.com
feel free to let him know what you think, y'all
- hans_glib0
wowzers... someone's not telling the truth somewhere:
o the question in this case is whether the phrase “Keep Calm And Carry On” is being used as an everyday phrase, or whether it has become distinctive so as to suggest that products bearing the phrase emanate from Mark Coop and his company. Had other companies been putting the phrase on their merchandise for a number of years, then those companies would have every right to object to Mark Coop’s registration and the suggestion that going forward only he should be entitled to apply the mark to goods. But if, as it appears, Mark Coop has been the only person applying the mark to a wide range of goods for several years now, then there is every reason to argue that people will associate the phrase with Mark Coop’s company and no reason therefore to revoke the community trade mark.
- Projectile0
HAHAHAHAAAA!! I got quite the response
Call me now if you have anything to say, 07976 850 489
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- hans_glib0
- Horrible Typography™hans_glib
- kerning like a whoreCALLES
- you sure? looks the same as the original.Hombre_Lobo
- surely changing the font doesn't make a difference? Otherwise anyone else could change the font and avoid the trademark he's putProjectile
- maybe he's just too stupid to tell the differenceanimatedgif
- Hombre_Lobo0
I'm all for it, if someone has put loads of hard work in to bring something to popularity and fruition, they deserve to make some money.
BUT thats if they created fucking thing in the first place!! Not when ripping some old poster off!!
- even if he was the first/only one who'd rediscovered it that would be fine too.Projectile
- jonny_quest_lives0
No one tops Franklin Loufrani...
http://smileycompany.com/smiley-…
"Smiley® name and logo is registered in over 100 countries for 25 classes of goods such as apparel, shoes, jewellery, toys, gifts and publishing"
"Over 2000 icons are protected by copyright for all products and service worldwide"
- 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
- moldero0
warner bros. owns the song "happy birthday" and gets paid $10k every time its played in a film.
- 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