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Most blatant copyright infringement you’ve ever seen

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  • #102
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,089 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Montage of Feck wrote: »
    What's in a Zuckerberger?

    90% thumb meat. 5% face and 5% book.


  • #103
    FFVII
    Registered Users Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭FFVII


    Avon8 wrote: »
    Having had sporadic dealings with him I can say with 100% certainty that he was ripping nothing off. The clue is in his name ffs. I'd actually be fairly certain he had no idea what McDonalds even was when he started his small town chipper. McDonalds had opened one a solitary restaurant in Dublin round the same time

    McDonalds have tried to bully Supermacs outside of Ireland repeatedly by stopping them opening up in the UK, Australia etc because of the Mac at the end of the name. As if they have complete ownership of the letters MC and its variations. I'd say financially he regrets fighting them on either case but he's won both

    Pity.

    Would have loved McDonald's win that.


  • #104
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,474 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    xa6zgw2ltf.jpg


  • #105
    cuppa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭cuppa


    Buckleys Bakery We are a family run bakery situated in the village of Cappawhite .Producing freshly baked crusty bread since 1920

    The British Broadcasting Corporation Founded: 18 Oct 1922

    :cool:


  • #106
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,089 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    cuppa wrote: »
    Buckleys Bakery We are a family run bakery situated in the village of Cappawhite .Producing freshly baked crusty bread since 1920

    The British Broadcasting Corporation Founded: 18 Oct 1922

    :cool:

    We've covered this. The potential trademark infringement isn't the use of the letters "BBC".

    It's the use of the specific logo. Nobody is going to seriously suggest that Buckleys Bakery were using this logo in 1920, and that the British Broadcasting Corporation then ripped them off.

    557067.png


  • #107
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,515 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Avon8 wrote: »
    Having had sporadic dealings with him I can say with 100% certainty that he was ripping nothing off. The clue is in his name ffs.

    Colour me convinced....on foot of this overwhelming evidence.


  • #108
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,388 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    We've covered this. The potential trademark infringement isn't the use of the letters "BBC".

    It's the use of the specific logo. Nobody is going to seriously suggest that Buckleys Bakery were using this logo in 1920, and that the British Broadcasting Corporation then ripped them off.

    557067.png

    The BBC only registered protection of various tradmarks within the EU from the 1990's onwards. Brexit may or may not weaken their protection. But unless you have evidence, you cannot claim that Buckleys were not using their logo first.

    https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#basic/1+1+1+1/100+100+100+100/Bbc

    The Beeb seem to want to claim whole variations of typefaces and colours for their three letters. I would expect an Irish court to uphold the rights of a trader in an EU member state over those of an organisation in a third country.


  • #109
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,089 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    But unless you have evidence, you cannot claim that Buckleys were not using their logo first.

    True, and I can’t prove the Loch Ness monster doesn’t exist or that Neil Armstrong actually walked ion the moon.

    But it’s very, very, very, very unlikely that a tiny Irish bakery was using the exact logo of one of the biggest media organisations in the world before them. And then when the broadcasting corporation started using the logo of this tiny bakery all across the world, the tiny bakery didn’t do anything about it - even just capitalise in it for a bit of publicity. I mean very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very unlikely. And it’s much, much, much, much more likely that this tiny bakery saw the chance to be a little playful with their branding and co-opt the broadcaster’s famous logo, on account of their shared initials.

    But yeah of course, there’s a chance. You cling to that chance, dxhound2005.


  • #110
    stopthevoting
    Registered Users Posts: 270 ✭✭stopthevoting


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    ... But unless you have evidence, you cannot claim that Buckleys were not using their logo first....
    I don't need any evidence to know that the bakery was definitely not using that logo of the three letters in the black squares before the BBC. Some things you just know.


  • #111
    buried
    Registered Users Posts: 9,841 ✭✭✭buried


    Here's one I've heard



    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



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  • #112
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,474 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


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  • #113
    Avon8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 518 ✭✭✭Avon8


    FFVII wrote: »
    Pity.

    Would have loved McDonald's win that.

    Better in the pockets of the investment funds that own McDonalds than sponsoring GAA teams or local projects in Ireland I suppose.

    McDonagh may pay his staff fcuk all which is to his detriment and should be improved. They (himself plus wife) are very generous with both time and money in their local area though and beyond. A quick Google can tell you that. Separation of the businessman from the person


  • #114
    donspeekinglesh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,868 ✭✭✭donspeekinglesh


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    xa6zgw2ltf.jpg

    Some cops in the US have started doing that when the public try to record them.
    https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210209/19152846222/latest-anti-accountability-move-cops-involves-playing-music-while-being-recorded-hopes-triggering-copyright-takedowns.shtml


  • #115
    ZuM16
    Registered Users Posts: 114 ✭✭ZuM16


    I have always liked this one:

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  • #116
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,688 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Avon8 wrote: »
    Having had sporadic dealings with him I can say with 100% certainty that he was ripping nothing off. The clue is in his name ffs. I'd actually be fairly certain he had no idea what McDonalds even was when he started his small town chipper. McDonalds had opened one a solitary restaurant in Dublin round the same time

    McDonalds have tried to bully Supermacs outside of Ireland repeatedly by stopping them opening up in the UK, Australia etc because of the Mac at the end of the name. As if they have complete ownership of the letters MC and its variations. I'd say financially he regrets fighting them on either case but he's won both

    Yeah and I agree with the court case outcome, McDonalds were just trying to bully him legally like they've always done as can be seen from the infamous McLibel trial.

    Im just saying I dont believe for one minute that the Supermacs name came about because Pat was so good at gaelic football that all the other kids nicknamed him 'Supermac' as he claimed in court. The guy is a chancer, always has been. It was only around this time last year we were talking about him charging staff for uniforms and his food even if they didnt want to eat it.. He was literally profiteering off his already poorly paid staff and taking money out of their wages even if they didnt want to eat his fatty food every day at work.

    He was also involved in another court case that specifically reduced the already low wages of his employees. And as has been pointed out he forced another restaurant in Bray to change their name so he was fine suiing someone else for copyright but when its done to him he is straight out to the media playing the poor man. The guy is a chancer who has a wealth of over 120 million but wont even pay his employees a living wage. But he's great at playing the beal bocht when it suits him.


  • #117
    keano25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,834 ✭✭✭keano25


    My Aul lad arrived home from Lebanon in the 90s with some right gems.. my favourite of all was the cordless telephone stamped 'Panatronic'


  • #118
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,388 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    stopthevoting wrote: »
    I don't need any evidence to know that the bakery was definitely not using that logo of the three letters in the black squares before the BBC. Some things you just know.

    The Beeb are using loads of different designs. They must think they own those three letters and can do what they like with them. A child could come up with a capital B in a black square.


  • #119
    Glaceon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭Glaceon


    keano25 wrote: »
    My Aul lad arrived home from Lebanon in the 90s with some right gems.. my favourite of all was the cordless telephone stamped 'Panatronic'
    You reminded me of some “Penesamig” batteries that were in some device my family had! :D


  • #120
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,515 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    Yeah and I agree with the court case outcome, McDonalds were just trying to bully him legally like they've always done as can be seen from the infamous McLibel trial.

    Im just saying I dont believe for one minute that the Supermacs name came about because Pat was so good at gaelic football that all the other kids nicknamed him 'Supermac' as he claimed in court. The guy is a chancer, always has been. It was only around this time last year we were talking about him charging staff for uniforms and his food even if they didnt want to eat it.. He was literally profiteering off his already poorly paid staff and taking money out of their wages even if they didnt want to eat his fatty food every day at work.

    He was also involved in another court case that specifically reduced the already low wages of his employees. And as has been pointed out he forced another restaurant in Bray to change their name so he was fine suiing someone else for copyright but when its done to him he is straight out to the media playing the poor man. The guy is a chancer who has a wealth of over 120 million but wont even pay his employees a living wage. But he's great at playing the beal bocht when it suits him.

    Multi millionaire but comparitive pennies of PUP money going offshore keeps him awake at night.

    His GAA nickname might have been less flattering...probably Scrooge McDuck...


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  • #121
    Sgt Hartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,520 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    Instead of Pizza Hut in Balbriggan there's "Pizza Hot"
    The food and pizzas there are far superior to Pizza Hut also.
    My cousin also had a Pizza Hot in Limerick about 20 years ago in High Street although it's called Casa Nova Pizza now.


  • #122
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,509 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Sgt Hartman wrote: »
    Instead of Pizza Hut in Balbriggan there's "Pizza Hot"
    The food and pizzas there are far superior to Pizza Hut also.
    My cousin also had a Pizza Hot in Limerick about 20 years ago in High Street although it's called Casa Nova Pizza now.

    I don't know that one, but isn't the chicken place called FLC done in the stile of another fried chicken chain?

    lGQAoya.jpeg


  • #123
    neenam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭neenam


    https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/n3uO3FHU1cAF0cK01X1uWnUT_Zw=/0x0:600x441/1200x800/filters:focal(252x172:348x268)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/64390115/700420440.0.jpg

    "Shepard Fairey made copies of the Hope Posters to help Obama win the nomination for President and the general election in 2008. Fairey sought to advance this goal by donating copies of the posters to people and organizations that he believed would help Obama get elected.

    Fairey subsequently earned significant amounts of money from ancillary uses of the poster. OBEY Clothing paid Fairey approximately $95,000 in royalties for OBEY Clothing’s use of the Hope Poster image on various forms of merchandise. (Although Fairey neither solicited nor expected this payment, he kept the money.) Fairey earned from the project roughly $1 million, of which more than $830,000 was due to Fairey’s sales of the fine art editions of the Hope Poster and his royalties from the mural and image commissions.

    It was found out in January 2009 that the poster was based on the photograph by freelance photographer Mannie Garcia, who was working for Associated Press at the time when the photograph was taken. When Fairey first discovered the Garcia Obama photograph, he believed that it was a crop of the Garcia Clooney photograph (that was also taken by Garcia). AP considered the “Hope” poster to be an unauthorized derivative work created by someone other than the copyright owner, which would constitute copyright infringement. Fairey subsequently filed a federal lawsuit against AP, seeking a declaratory judgment that his use of the AP photograph was protected by the fair use doctrine. He later admitted that he had based the poster on the AP Garcia Obama photograph and had fabricated and destroyed evidence to hide the fact. A judge urged a settlement, stating that AP would win the case. The AP and Shepard Fairey settled out of court in January 2011. Had Shepard Fairey paid a license fee to AP, it seems that he could have obtained permission to use the photo.”

    There are more examples like this, but this has to be one of the more promiment textbook example of derivative work out there.


  • #124
    Sgt Hartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,520 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    kowloon wrote: »
    I don't know that one, but isn't the chicken place called FLC done in the stile of another fried chicken chain?

    lGQAoya.jpeg

    They sure do although they also do kebabs and curries. I stopped getting anything from there since they stopped doing proper lamb kebab and switched to the minced doner crap instead.

    Pizza Hot btw is in Castlemill SC

    Regarding the girl, Nike probably would offer a slave job in a sweatshop in lieu of suing her for copyright infringement. I wouldn't put it past them :D


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