Too much pun

Pot Tarts. Stoney Ranchers. Well, you get no points for creativity. (Aren't there copyright trademark issues here? They even use the same fonts and designs) I'm just waiting for the cartoon character.

Look here, "medical marijuana activists"/potheads. If you want to be seen as professionals providing a medicine to those in need, rather than a bunch of potheads trying to make it easier to get high, it would help if you actually acted like a bunch of professionals providing a medicine to those in need, rather than a bunch of potheads trying to make it easier to get high. People who take medicines for all kinds of ailments manage to pull it off without putting it in candy or toaster pastry form.

Ideology only goes so far for most people. If they just don't like your attitude, they'll sweep their beliefs about freedom under the rug.

Update: Uh... well, IANAL, after all.

Update 2: On the other hand, I suddenly have the urge to read Pop Tarts: The Novel.

posted by Beetle Aurora Drake 3/18/2006 03:10:00 PM #
Comments (4)

. . .

Comments:

parody receives legal protection under any circumstances, i think. as for the wittiness of the images, i have much less to say.

# posted by  Anonymous : 3:36 PM, March 18, 2006

 

I don't know if it would qualify as parody, though. They're selling the product inside, not the joke.

# posted by  Beetle Aurora Drake : 3:42 PM, March 18, 2006

 

Diminution of trademark is another issue. The trademark/identity is tarnished by the association with an illegal substance (which marijuana still is, under federal law, whether bay area potheads like it or not.)

# posted by  Anonymous : 4:32 PM, March 18, 2006

 

The above commenter is right, this is a trademark issue, not copyright. You can't copyright words or short phrases. And Pop Tarts has yet to come out with a novel.

# posted by  Armen Adzhemyan : 6:36 PM, March 18, 2006

 

Post a Comment