More WTFage
More ridiculous news. So I heard the court ruled that Men At Work have to pay back royalties for "Land Down Under" - I hope they had some pretty convincing evidence because I don't buy it.
More ridiculous? The IOC asked the Australian Olympic team to take down the big flag of the boxing kangaroo in Vancouver because, get this, it's against their policy regarding the use of registered trademarks as being "too commercial"!!
The AOC (Australian Olympic Committee) owns the rights to the flag, which is our national sporting flag and an image that we've been using for over a hundred years. So yes, it is a registered trademark. An Olympic one!! They use it at every Games.
I was proud to hear the Aussies say they wouldn't take it down until they'd received a direct order to, and that they weren't taking it seriously and all, but I'm also really pissed at the hypocrisy of it.
I would love to see fewer registered trademarks. McDonalds, for one. All those credit card companies and anything else that squeezes a tenuous connection between sport and some product we don't actually need but have been told we want.
How can they have the gall to want to ban the boxing kangaroo - symbol of our fighting spirit - and yet allow golden arches and other similar crap to decorate every venue?! The boxing kangaroo isn't selling a consumer item, especially not one as unhealthy as McDonalds. (They're playing an ad here featuring a Canadian winter Olympian eating a McDonalds burger at the airport when this annoying girl comes over to her and starts gushing about McDonalds, terrible ad; the funny thing is that you never once see the athlete putting the food in her mouth, and she looks like she hates herself for being in the ad. Can't blame her.) As everyone knows, the IOC shamelessly makes deals with commercial companies and it's hard to find an even more widely watched that's more heavily smothered with advertising.
More ridiculous? The IOC asked the Australian Olympic team to take down the big flag of the boxing kangaroo in Vancouver because, get this, it's against their policy regarding the use of registered trademarks as being "too commercial"!!
The AOC (Australian Olympic Committee) owns the rights to the flag, which is our national sporting flag and an image that we've been using for over a hundred years. So yes, it is a registered trademark. An Olympic one!! They use it at every Games.
I was proud to hear the Aussies say they wouldn't take it down until they'd received a direct order to, and that they weren't taking it seriously and all, but I'm also really pissed at the hypocrisy of it.
I would love to see fewer registered trademarks. McDonalds, for one. All those credit card companies and anything else that squeezes a tenuous connection between sport and some product we don't actually need but have been told we want.
How can they have the gall to want to ban the boxing kangaroo - symbol of our fighting spirit - and yet allow golden arches and other similar crap to decorate every venue?! The boxing kangaroo isn't selling a consumer item, especially not one as unhealthy as McDonalds. (They're playing an ad here featuring a Canadian winter Olympian eating a McDonalds burger at the airport when this annoying girl comes over to her and starts gushing about McDonalds, terrible ad; the funny thing is that you never once see the athlete putting the food in her mouth, and she looks like she hates herself for being in the ad. Can't blame her.) As everyone knows, the IOC shamelessly makes deals with commercial companies and it's hard to find an even more widely watched that's more heavily smothered with advertising.