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The right to blasphemy | 138 comments (138 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: Now this is an interesting sidelight (none / 1)
The analogy is actually false, because trademark protection or copyright infringements deal with commercial issues.

I'll go on a limb and say that, an an artist, you have the right under the first amendment to paint a picture ofd a man pissing on Mickey Mouse or Ronald McDonald.

You should also be free to figuratively picc on Allah, Mahomet, Jesus, Pope John Paul, Buddha, Wotan, Moses, etc.

It may not win you any friends, and I certainly respect the right of others to protest and make their feelings known, but we, in presumably enlightened societies, have learned (or should have learned) to NOT persecute artists.

by Lupin on Sat Feb 4th, 2006 at 01:44:22 AM EST
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Re: Now this is an interesting sidelight (none / 0)
Not so entirely commercial in intelprop cases.  As I recall a C&D from Disney was delivered to a school in the boonies of NZ or Oz where the kids and teachers had painted Disney characters on the playground fence.  They were instructed to paint over the "stolen" images or be sued.  Hardly a dispute over commerce.  It's about control and enclosure [I should add that to the "seven" things I always say...]

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...
by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Sat Feb 4th, 2006 at 08:23:16 PM EST
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The right to blasphemy | 138 comments (138 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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