On April 14th, the
Bernie Sanders campaign sent a cease and desist
letter claiming Liberty Maniacs was unlawfully selling its parodies
because they used the likeness of the official Bernie Sanders for President
logo on this shirt.
According to its website,
Liberty Maniacs “is an independent brand that designs and sells some of
the world's favorite political and satirical apparel and merchandise. From
hilarious 2016 election gear, funny political t-shirts,
libertarian minded posters, art prints,
humorous mugs, and thousands of other products sold by
some of the most trusted retailers. Liberty Maniacs has become a top
source for liberty lovers across the globe of
every stripe, and a thorn in the side of everyone from the NSA to top politicians."
Dan McCall, the owner
of Liberty Maniacs and his lawyer Paul
Levy, have
successfully shot down bogus trademark demands from the Ready for Hillary
pre-campaign PAC which tried to suppress Liberty Maniac’s “Ready for Oligarchy”
parody, threats from the NSA for calling it “The only part of the government
that actually listens”, the Ben Carson campaign and the Republican National
Committee for using the elephant logo to describe the Republican Party.
Mr. Levy notes, “Each
time, the lawyers representing candidates or political committees made stupid
legal threats based on a misunderstanding of trademark law (or using pretended
trademark law claims as an excuse), the public response to the demands taught
them about the consequences of making such demands. Now it is the turn of Bernie Sanders'
campaign to learn a lesson about trademark bullying.”
When McCall introduced
the new t-shirt he described it this way:
With the lovable personality of a drowsy badger and the voice of a bullfrog, Bernie is your comrade in fighting the good fight against oligarchical imperialism, exploitative corporatism, economic logic, electoral probability, male pattern baldness, Clintonian coronation, and whatever other Sisyphean task you can shake your fist at.
This shirt includes a pantheon of socialist paladins just to confuse, fascinate, and cause the finger-wagging, nitpicking partisan to hilariously instruct upon the proper definition of socialism while everyone within a five foot radius rolls their eyes in aversion.
I’ve found myself a
new hero and I think I’ll support Mr. McCall’s delightful entrepreneurial
enterprise by purchasing the Free
Shit tee, the Hillary
for Prison tee and a Trump
We Shall Overcomb mug just for shits and giggles ‘cause that’s how I roll.
I love the smell of
capitalism in the morning.
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