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Thursday, August 09, 2007

Why Corporations are Assholes: Reason 4956

Continuing my angry old bitter man rants... ( after reading this you will understand )

Legal fight over red cross symbol



Medical firm Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is suing the American Red Cross, alleging the charity has misused the famous red cross symbol for commercial purposes.

J&J said a deal with the charity's founder in 1895 gave it the "exclusive use" of the symbol as a trademark for drug, chemical and surgical products.

It said American Red Cross had violated this agreement by licensing the symbol to other firms to sell certain goods.

The charity described the lawsuit as "obscene".


And:

Copyright moves ignite coffee controversy

The Australian coffee industry is furious at news that coffee giant Nestle is trying to get the exclusive rights to images of coffee in a coffee mug.



If Nestle is successful coffee roasters, sellers and even cafes risk breaching copyright if they use images similar to Nestle's
Posted by Templesmith at 11:27 am
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1 comment:

Sail said...

Totally. Lame. The Pearl Jam thing too.

1:59 am

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