voice of the damned
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 Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 3:04 pm Post subject: Carnaval hires lawyers to protect Bonhomme |
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| Quote: | Quebec City's Winter Carnival has hired lawyers to defend its beloved Bonhomme Carnaval, whose iconic image is gracing newsstands across the country this week after Maclean's magazine used it to illustrate an explosive cover story about corruption in la belle province.
"For the past 57 years, the Carnival has invested considerable energy and resources into protecting Bonhomme Carnaval's outstanding reputation," said the event's CEO Jean Pelletier in a statement released Monday afternoon. "We are therefore examining the options available to us to enforce our intellectual property rights."
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I'm not sure what to think of this, in terms of intellectual property. I'm assuming that Carnaval actually own the rights to the image, otherwise they probably wouldn't bother hiring lawyers.
If the allegations were specifically about Carnaval itself, I'd say Bonhomme is obviously fair game, since he is the symbol of the Carnaval. In that case, the parody would be similar to something like this, which uses the iconography of a particular company to criticize some aspect of that company.
But as far as I know, the allegations are not about Carnaval itself. Even then, though, I'm not sure I would want Carnaval's lawyers to prevail. There is a bit of a history of artists using copyrighted icons as symbols of general "badness"(possibly disturbing image), even in situations where the company itself is not directly linked to the specific things portrayed in the art.
Last edited by voice of the damned on Tue Sep 28, 2010 3:12 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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