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If I were the CEO of McDonalds, I'd be suing Burger King for violating my trademark.
A hilarious thought occured. If Burgerking indeed never sought McDonalds' permission for this, it could indeed be copyright infringement. As I understand it, if an IP holder doesn't pursue legal recourse, other infringers can point to the piece and say "they were fine with it there" and legally use the copyrighted material in the same manner.
Bust out your hair dye and clown makup, McDonalds Porn is now legally protected!
Obligatory: I'm just some faggot with a keyboard, not a lawyer
You are correct. You must vigorously and aggressively defend your IP if permission is not given.
"Trademark rape" is the new hip thing.
Please show us on the doll where the defendant stole your IP.
Pffft, they're probably fucking in on it.
Maybe, though if it gets out that the ol' McD is trying to tear down pride poster, they'd suffer the wrath of the woke crowd. Either they endure a struggle session, or they lose their mascot. Could this be a 4D chess move by BK?
...I'm having way too much fun with this lol
It's an interesting thought.
If McDonalds attack the ad, even on trademark grounds, they'll be seen as homophobic. Ronald McDonald is a far more central part of McDonald's branding than the The King is for Burger King.
BK doesn't have much to lose, even in conservative areas, from people thinking their mascot is gay, because BK don't have life size statues of the king at half their locations.
But McDonalds do, and parents will watch their kids sit in the lap of a clown who's gay on twitter. Meanwhile, at Burger King, parents will seldom encounter the gay king.
So yeah, you could totally interpret this a 4D chess kafkatrap.
Only if you give a fuck about the woke crowd. If you don't this would blow over without making a dent in their profits. I'd argue that it may even help them, being the restaurant that weird creeps, perverts, pedos and psychos hate is quite the endorsement.
The Ronald McDonald of my childhood was a black man in whiteface.
It was considered really "woke" at the time to crow about this to kids, while sitting them down to watch Fat Albert or Good Times.
I thought they already stopped more or less using their mascot because of the modern unpopularity of clowns, and the fact that they morphed from circus and birthday fools to horror icons.
As I said somewhere before, it's kind of shocking to realize that Krusty the Klown is the closest thing left to the traditional clown in modern pop culture, and he was intended to mock the traditional TV clown (particularly Bozo and his franchise.)
Which can only reach you if you lay down and wait for punishment. Ask Red Bull how Didi Mateschitz's definitive No to the woke agenda and consequent firing of woke managers has hurt them. It should be somewhere between "not at all" and "our profits are ridiculously high, thank you".
Canadian or American Burger King?
Americans seem to have the worst version of almost everything they invented.