@chriswho People (especially people who own trademarks) tend to forget that the express purpose of trademark law (it's written into the words of the US trademark law itself) that trademarks are to benefit the consumer by making it easier for a consumer to clearly identify the source and identity of a product.
Trademarks are not intended to be a boon for the trademark owner, rather trademarks are there for the protection of consumers.
@yunchtime@chriswho Regulation is vital. Only 2 countries allow direct marketing of drugs to the population (US and NZ). The rest regulate, for good reasons. We need to extend the regulation:
@samueljohnson@yunchtime@chriswho not true. There's tons of advertisements on the TV and radio for drugs (congestion, cold, painkillers, etc) in Germany.
There was a smaller billboard for a real estate agent that I would walk past on the way to work.
Big cheesy smiling face of the agent took up a big chunk of the space.
Then one day someone put large googly eyes on it. It was stupid, and juvenile and I absolutely loved it.
It stayed that was for several days before the billboard company removed them. That lasted a few days and the googly eyes came back.
It went on like this until the agent relented and had the sign replaced with one without a headshot. Which was kind of a bummer.
Certainly nowhere near Banksy's talent, but I was cheering for Googly Eye all the same.
@Sir_Osis_of_Liver@chriswho I used to pass a travel agent's office on my way to work. The window had some posters for sunny destinations, one of which featured a couple supposedly catching a fish on a fine sandy Mediterranean beach. One day I realized that the line hanging from the rod was hanging straight down and flatfish on the end was certainly 100% dead. Ergo the whole thing was staged and completely fake. Amused me every time I passed.
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