Some days, just when you thing all is right with the world, you find something like this…
Even Mother Nature herself does not respect our beloved Disney’s trademarks!
The original evidence of MN’s disdain can be found on Flickr.
I understand why Imperial stormtroopers might want to poke fun at Princess Leia — I really do! — but that’s a pair of bootleg mouse ears on their table! How do I know? Because that particular model of mouse ear was not available a long time ago, and certainly isn’t licensed for sale in a galaxy far, far away! The shame!
I find it hard to type because of the tears in my eyes — have you ever seen anything so horrific in all your life? It’s a cake — a cake for a child’s party, mind you — on which has been placed decorations depicting Disney’s beloved icon of intellectual property horrifyingly dismembered and scattered about. This mutilation of pure goodness was found on Coolest Birthday Cakes, and I will see its horrifying image whenever I close my eyes for months to come.
Xeni Jardin claims in a Boingboing post that this photo was taken accidentally with an iPhone. Well, we might be able to believe that the photo itself was an accident, but — as we all know after many hours of intense, one-on-one corporate training — copyright violation is never an accident!
It takes just the smallest amount of thought gymnastics to mentally rotate the basket of foodstuffs until the unmistakable outline of Mickey Mouse’s thoroughly-copyrighted silhouette is visible. It’s a clever marketing gimmick, but though we are sure that the tortillas are delicious and healthful, they still appear to be an abomination of copyright violation!
Copyright-infringing vanilla ice cream treat revealed (along with a number of other dairy-related violations) on the Disneyland Linkage site.
Ghost Dance
Mickey Moo, a creature demonstrating in the flesh that even Mother Nature has no respect for corporate identity rights, is discussed at Yesterland.com.
found on Amazon.
, found on Amazon.