Big Graeme wrote:
Last time I checked you didn't have the liberty of infringing a trademark.
Sadly they way trademark protection works is you have to chase anyone infringing, if you don't you stand to lose any protection you have, that means chasing the small business as well as the big counterfeiting operations.
It's hardly just about protecting trademarks from infringement, is it?
These laws will allow entirely different names, logos, brands, adverts etc to be removed.
And given the way in which anti-terrorism laws have been used in recent years, how much faith do you really have that such laws would not be used to stop anti-Games sentiments? After all, one Twitter account has already been removed because of objections from Logoc.
We already have the total stupidity of such things as roadsigns near Coventry City's ground having to be changed so that they don't read 'Ricoh Stadium' because – oh my god, what damage that would do to other corporate bodies, while people are bustling around putting tape over brand names on hand driers in public toilets and elsewhere.
We have (or will have) anti-aircraft guns stationed on the top of people's homes.
We have people being told they can't open their workplaces because it would represent "unnecessary traffic", on roads where entire lanes have been designated as for use by VIPs only, with ordinary people told that they can't use certain road crossings either.
It's pathetic.
