…which is really quite brazen:
Plans to save Big Bird, the fuzzy yellow character on U.S. public television’s “Sesame Street,” from possible extinction are taking shape in the form of a puppet-based protest next month dubbed the “Million Muppet March.”
The demonstration is planned for November 3 at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., three days before the general election.
Obviously, if the two people who came up with this waste of time manage to get more than a thousand people it’ll be a minor miracle; but trademark violation is trademark violation, and the MMM was certainly remarkably indifferent to respecting Sesame Workshop’s intellectual property here. So the Sesame Workshop needs to ask itself: which group does it want to annoy? Liberals (who stereotypically largely don’t have kids), or Republicans (who stereotypically do)?
Moe Lane
Ideology trumps profit for most liberal business models – just ask the NY Times.
jetty: Sesame Workshop has already demonstrated that they don’t want to get dragged into this sh*t, though.
RT @moelane: #rsrh Please note this violation of copyright, @sesameworkshop…: http://t.co/xKSM25V2
Hence the word “most”.
There could be copyright violations if images have been appropriated inappropriately. My understanding is that Disney currently owns the Muppets trademark. At any rate, two companies brands are probably being damaged over this sort of nonsense.