Official: Franklin Mint won’t be selling a William and Kate Royal Wedding Commemorative Gigantic Pile of Animal Excreta
This correction from Crikey may be a day old, but it’s too good not to share:
Crikey apologises to The Franklin Mint
Correction and retraction:
CRIKEY: Last Wednesday, in a work commemorating the impending nuptials of Prince William and Kate Middleton, Crikey cartoonist First Dog on the Moon used the registered service mark of The Franklin Mint.
Crikey needs to do a course on copyright law, particularly the section on satire which allows the use of the trademark in this case.
If they’d stood their ground they wouldn’t have been able to produce the comedy that ensued. Why fight a battle you don’t want to win?
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella