Lawsuit Filed To Prove Happy Birthday Is In The Public Domain

Re:Lawsuit Filed To Prove Happy Birthday Is In The Public Do... by icebraining on Friday June 14, 2013 @04:02AM (#5878807)

"I ♥ NY" was part of a campaign to attract tourism, and became a pop-culture symbol; it's not an issue of copyright. In fact, using the heart is more likely to get them in trouble, since it's trademarked by NY and they go against imitators.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_New_York

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Re:Lawsuit Filed To Prove Happy Birthday Is In The Public Do... by inthewind on Friday June 14, 2013 @04:35AM (#5878898)

Related and just as daft:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafe_Hon#.22Hon.22_as_a_tradema...

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Re:Lawsuit Filed To Prove Happy Birthday Is In The Public Do... by mrcoles on Friday June 14, 2013 @08:12AM (#5879437)

I worried a little when I started selling this shirt: http://mrcoles.com/media/img/cool-harold-i-ny-ny-fractal-shi... but I figured it was either different enough or could be applied as a parody? (Or probably just no one cares, since it's not popular enough…)

It also seems like a lot of amateur t-shirt sites have tons of custom i <3 shirts.

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