But when you think about it, it's not funny at all, of course. The bloke's name is Singh, and surely it's not illegal to use your name in the way he has? His naming his shop in that way is obviously intending to be humourous, and not even remotely as a serious attempt to fool people into thinking that his shop is part of a well known supermarket chain. It shouldn't be illegal. And maybe it's not, and he had to back down or face the unlimited cash of Sainsburys lawyers, which is just as bad.
There's a pizza shop in York called 'Dominics' and the logo looks a lot like a certain famous pizza brand. So far so good. Filey used to have a chicken takeaway called 'Kentucky Filey Chicken' (I think) but that has changed now. Not sure if it was litigation.
I seem to recall reading (maybe on here?) that companies need to challenge potential copyright violations in order to maintain their copyright but I may be wrong.
Pretty obvious he's ripping off the targeted company's style and logo designs though.
No-one's going to be fooled by it, but it's using someone else's intellectual property as a way of attracting attention to his business. If you were looking out for a shop and first saw the colours of his old sign you'd associate it with the supermarket chain before you'd read it properly.
That's deliberately passing off and it's against the law.
Agree with joefish. While I'd generally stand up for the little guy, it's piggybacking on a brand and you can only expect a bit of bother. Generally they get publicity in the local rag after changing the name to something less controversial. So, unless you sink your cash into an unwinnable lawsuit you probably win.
Pretty obvious he's ripping off the targeted company's style and logo designs though.
No-one's going to be fooled by it, but it's using someone else's intellectual property as a way of attracting attention to his business. If you were looking out for a shop and first saw the colours of his old sign you'd associate it with the supermarket chain before you'd read it properly.
That's deliberately passing off and it's against the law.
I suppose. Plus maybe Sainsburys have to be seen to be coming down heavily on anyone who copies their IP, as otherwise it might send the message that they would allow much more of it. But if I owned Sainsburys then I'd let him keep the name, as I don't see it harming my supermarket business, and I like humorous things like this (real life is rubbish, so anything that gets a good natured laugh is to be encouraged), and although supermarkets are great for shopping (the stuff is cheap, and all in one place) I do miss the days when high-streets were full of specific-type-of-items shops, such as butchers, green-grocers, hardware shops, newsagents, and so on.
Was the engineer and ex Robot Wars contestant? Because that robot looks like a crap toy rocket :))
Would've been much better if it was the Dubai Robocop who'd taken a dive, although I bet if he's in service now he's been kicked to sh*t and spraypainted like Johnny 5 in Short Circuit 2 :))
It's a bit of a weird setup though, a mall water feature with steps down into it instead of being completely enclosed. Presumably the robot's main job was to stop kids playing in the fountain?
On psychiatric clinic:
- What's your name ?
- James Bond.
- Strange, yesterday you were saying your name was Marilyn Monroe.
- Well, that's my girlish name !
I went to school with a fella, who looks like he guy on the right, the guy on the left looks like a sex offender, and I know a fella here in the states who's grandma looks like the one in the middle :))
The fella in the middle looks like the usual too optimistic guy who persuades his mates to create a band. 'Forget the second-hand car business, our future is in the music'
Reminds me of the Brothel Parrot joke (ripped and adjusted from the web, I think originally told by Barry Cryer)
A woman went to a pet shop & immediately spotted a large, beautiful parrot. There was a sign on the cage that said £5. "Why so cheap?" she asked the pet store owner. The owner looked at her and said, "Look, I should tell you first that this bird used to live in a brothel and sometimes it says some pretty vulgar stuff." The woman thought about this, but decided she had to have the bird any way. She took it home and hung the bird's cage up in her living room and waited for it to say something. The bird looked around the room, then at her, and said, "New house, new madam." The woman was a bit shocked at the implication, but then thought "that's really not so bad." When her 2 teenage daughters returned from school the bird saw and said, "New house, new madam, new girls." The girls and the woman began to laugh about the situation considering how and where the parrot had been raised. Moments later, the woman's husband came home from work. The bird looked at him and said "TED! Nice to see you again".
I've just completed a research project designed to answer the question "What do the kids of today, the sort who thirty years ago would have been Commodore 64 owners, do to pass the time now the C64 isn't available?".
Turns out the answer is pretty much what you'd expect:
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Quote "A shopkeeper who claimed he was threatened with legal action after calling his shop Singhsbury's has changed its name to Morrisinghs."
(for anyone not from England, it's funny because we have two large supermarkets chains called Sainsburys, and Morrisons)
Source: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-40416049
But when you think about it, it's not funny at all, of course. The bloke's name is Singh, and surely it's not illegal to use your name in the way he has? His naming his shop in that way is obviously intending to be humourous, and not even remotely as a serious attempt to fool people into thinking that his shop is part of a well known supermarket chain. It shouldn't be illegal. And maybe it's not, and he had to back down or face the unlimited cash of Sainsburys lawyers, which is just as bad.
I seem to recall reading (maybe on here?) that companies need to challenge potential copyright violations in order to maintain their copyright but I may be wrong.
No-one's going to be fooled by it, but it's using someone else's intellectual property as a way of attracting attention to his business. If you were looking out for a shop and first saw the colours of his old sign you'd associate it with the supermarket chain before you'd read it properly.
That's deliberately passing off and it's against the law.
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I suppose. Plus maybe Sainsburys have to be seen to be coming down heavily on anyone who copies their IP, as otherwise it might send the message that they would allow much more of it. But if I owned Sainsburys then I'd let him keep the name, as I don't see it harming my supermarket business, and I like humorous things like this (real life is rubbish, so anything that gets a good natured laugh is to be encouraged), and although supermarkets are great for shopping (the stuff is cheap, and all in one place) I do miss the days when high-streets were full of specific-type-of-items shops, such as butchers, green-grocers, hardware shops, newsagents, and so on.
The stricken robot, made by Knightscope, was spotted by passers-by whose photos of the aftermath quickly went viral on social media.
For some, the incident seemed to sum up the state of 21st Century technology.
"We were promised flying cars, instead we got suicidal robots," wrote one worker from the building on Twitter."
Source: bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40642968
Would've been much better if it was the Dubai Robocop who'd taken a dive, although I bet if he's in service now he's been kicked to sh*t and spraypainted like Johnny 5 in Short Circuit 2 :))
It's a bit of a weird setup though, a mall water feature with steps down into it instead of being completely enclosed. Presumably the robot's main job was to stop kids playing in the fountain?
- IONIAN-GAMES.com -
Lulz! :))
I know you meant people trying to fish the robot out, but I just thought about the Disney cartoon, and that made me laugh :D
- What's your name ?
- James Bond.
- Strange, yesterday you were saying your name was Marilyn Monroe.
- Well, that's my girlish name !
- Can you give me a pair of socks ?
- Sorry sir, here we sell only things for smokers.
- Well, I'm a smoker though.
They're almost like this guy from the League of Gentlemen :))
The father asks his son what he did that afternoon.
The son says, “I did some schoolwork.”
The robot slaps the son.
The son says, “Ok, Ok. I was at a friend’s house watching movies.”
Dad asks, “What movie did you watch?”
Son says, “Toy Story.”
The robot slaps the son.
Son says, “Ok, Ok, we were watching porn.”
Dad says, “What? At your age, I didn’t even know what porn was.”
The robot slaps the father.
Mom laughs and says, “Well, he certainly is your son.”
The robot slaps the mother…….
"ROBOT FOR SALE!"
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Reminds me of the Brothel Parrot joke (ripped and adjusted from the web, I think originally told by Barry Cryer)
A woman went to a pet shop & immediately spotted a large, beautiful parrot. There was a sign on the cage that said £5. "Why so cheap?" she asked the pet store owner. The owner looked at her and said, "Look, I should tell you first that this bird used to live in a brothel and sometimes it says some pretty vulgar stuff." The woman thought about this, but decided she had to have the bird any way. She took it home and hung the bird's cage up in her living room and waited for it to say something. The bird looked around the room, then at her, and said, "New house, new madam." The woman was a bit shocked at the implication, but then thought "that's really not so bad." When her 2 teenage daughters returned from school the bird saw and said, "New house, new madam, new girls." The girls and the woman began to laugh about the situation considering how and where the parrot had been raised. Moments later, the woman's husband came home from work. The bird looked at him and said "TED! Nice to see you again".
The other says , 'Yep, I heard it snore a couple of times'
Turns out the answer is pretty much what you'd expect:
Note: if when you open the links, the page says "This media may contain sensitive material. Learn more", then click 'View'. Don't worry, it's nothing rude or disgusting, just funny.
https://twitter.com/AwardsDarwin/status/942931252222545920?s=03
https://twitter.com/Ffs_OMG/status/920711022964629509?s=03
https://twitter.com/kidd_kong78/status/920321293098078208?s=03