Police mascot shot by gunman
May 10th, 2008 by James
On a T-shirt. And the police were not happy about it, as this news report shows:
Three men have been charged with trademark infringement for printing and selling the t-shirts back in 2006. The men had failed to obtain permission from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police before using an illustration of their mascot, Pipo-kun.
Although the shirts has originally been sold for 3,150 yen apiece at a store in Shinjuku, but sales were poor and after several price decreases the men actually ended up giving away some of the unsold shirts for free.
Do you support the decision to charge the t-shirt's creators?
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Regardless of how stupid this topic is I am surprised so many voters are in favor of trademark infringement.
I guess that means if you created something it would be fine for anyone to use it to make money however they pleased?
Did people actually read the poll?
It depends if it IS infringement. If it is used for a specific purpose (satire especially, or to make analytical or critical comment) it is allowed.
Yea but these guys were trying to make a profit on it so clearly the motivation was not satire. And if it was satire… well I don’t get it.
Satire doesn’t mean you can’t make money.
it’s a shadow, nothing proove that this is this mascot. il could be something else with the same shape
A picture with the mascot playing Baseball would have been a better picture.