I saw an interview with the "inventor" of "candy apple red" commenting on how rich he'd be if he'd copyrighted the color. Like Barbie Pink it is iconic.
I guess Magenta is only in contention if you use it in a certain way. I can understand Mattel not wanting 11" fashion dolls in boxed in their color scheme. I can understand rulings where your car can't look like a taxi or police car. But to take a primary color...
It's one thing to make such a ridiculous claim, but something else to enforce it. Would love to see the reaction of a judge being asked to rule in their favor for anything less than a blatant copy of their artwork. Colors belong to rainbows! ;-)
What's gonna happen to good taste if all color jokes from now on are limited to "brown and yellow"?...
They'd better not come and bicker me with their copirates and their colors. I've got daltonism, so I call them like I see them, and that's the end of it mister!
Besides, my PC monitor is half-dead, and I'm looking for a new one urgently. The old one is now at complete odds with the red component, and all Domai models currently seem to be Martians at dusk, with their emerald-green skin tan (tone? tin?).
Okay, seriously now, it's clear that the folks getting payed millions of sesterces to brainstorm out some well-crafted legalese, sometimes go to work in the morning without drinking their cup of stimulating Magenta T, and sometimes they blurt out moronisms bigger than their think caps (the ones with gaulish horns on top).
These are very sad times indeed, when you can't utter the tiniest monument of stupidity without millions of merciless internauts snickering at you on YouBoob or www.freemagenta.nl
Ain't no more respect today for rich scoundrels, I tell you...
Say, to get my mood swinging, I'm gonna sing the Magentas. Or whatever color the smoggy sky is these days...
Roses are red, Violets are blue, I could get helped But who cares for colors true? Ooh-ooh, oh mommy-mommy!
God created the rainbow, then the Catholic Church copyrighted it, then they sub-leased a share of it to T-Mobile. They called it "T-o-logy". "And the money was good." [Book of Jobs, Corporate edition]
I saw an interview with the "inventor" of "candy apple red" commenting on how rich he'd be if he'd copyrighted the color. Like Barbie Pink it is iconic.
ReplyDeleteI guess Magenta is only in contention if you use it in a certain way. I can understand Mattel not wanting 11" fashion dolls in boxed in their color scheme. I can understand rulings where your car can't look like a taxi or police car. But to take a primary color...
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ReplyDeleteIt's one thing to make such a ridiculous claim, but something else to enforce it. Would love to see the reaction of a judge being asked to rule in their favor for anything less than a blatant copy of their artwork. Colors belong to rainbows! ;-)
ReplyDeleteColors belong to rainbows, and rainbows belong to our soulless corporate overlords.
ReplyDeleteWhat's gonna happen to good taste if all color jokes from now on are limited to "brown and yellow"?...
ReplyDeleteThey'd better not come and bicker me with their copirates and their colors. I've got daltonism, so I call them like I see them, and that's the end of it mister!
Besides, my PC monitor is half-dead, and I'm looking for a new one urgently. The old one is now at complete odds with the red component, and all Domai models currently seem to be Martians at dusk, with their emerald-green skin tan (tone? tin?).
Okay, seriously now, it's clear that the folks getting payed millions of sesterces to brainstorm out some well-crafted legalese, sometimes go to work in the morning without drinking their cup of stimulating Magenta T, and sometimes they blurt out moronisms bigger than their think caps (the ones with gaulish horns on top).
These are very sad times indeed, when you can't utter the tiniest monument of stupidity without millions of merciless internauts snickering at you on YouBoob or www.freemagenta.nl
Ain't no more respect today for rich scoundrels, I tell you...
Say, to get my mood swinging, I'm gonna sing the Magentas. Or whatever color the smoggy sky is these days...
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I could get helped
But who cares for colors true?
Ooh-ooh, oh mommy-mommy!
God created the rainbow, then the Catholic Church copyrighted it, then they sub-leased a share of it to T-Mobile. They called it "T-o-logy". "And the money was good." [Book of Jobs, Corporate edition]
I don't think there's anything wrong with your PC monitor, Pascal. Domai recently moved to target the Martian demographic.
ReplyDeleteFirst to market after the recent discovery of water ice there.
"What's gonna happen to good taste if all color jokes from now on are limited to "brown and yellow"?"
ReplyDeleteUPS is gonna come after you.
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Roses are red
violets are blue
I'm a schizophrenic
and so am I
New and improved version :
ReplyDeleteRoses are green,
Violets are magenta
You am a schizophrene,
And so are I.
Alternate version :
Roses are magenta,
Violets are blue
I are with schizophrenia,
And so am you.
Votes are now open.