Not before Brendan Rodgers mouths off about Celtic playing in the Premier League to anyone who'll listen... Instead we have MPs getting murdered on the streets of their constituency.
The world has more right wing extremists now than at any other time in my lifetime. The parallels with the 1930's are worrying and this time we have a complete moron as President of the US. In the thirties we had one of the most enlightened Presidents. On top of all that we have religious extremists in the US and Europe and the Middle East. Then there is North Korea. FFS
Because as I just said their political propaganda machine is so effective they don't need to but it's not that long ago that people in Northern Ireland were shot because they were protesting at not having a vote at all. So you can get off your UK is better box right now.
I take the point, but the PL can't have copyright over anything that looks like a lion's head can they? Once corporations are allowed to have rights to things 'that look like' common symbols there's a problem for all of us. If this does go to court and found in favour of the PL (believe me I could see why) but it would set up a dangerous legal precedent. You'd then need to have a set of instructions for determining how art is legally different from other art.
I think you already do vim, that's how the patents office works. But you're right Corporations are trying to patent the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink and the words we use.
It is strange how dictators tend to be in power in clusters, for example in the 30s there was Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Franco and Salazar, the 70s had Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, Pinochet, Idi Amin, Ceausescu, Ayatollah Khomeini, Kim Il-sung and Jorge Videla (while Enver Hoxha and Franco were still in power from the 30s and 40s respectively), and the 90s had Kim Jong-il, Slobodan Milosevic, Robert Mugabe and Alexander Lukashenko (while Saddam was still in power from the 70s) Now look at the cluster we have forming: Trump, Kim Jong-un, Erdogan while the Saudis have flexed their dictatorial muscles far more of late, while Mugabe and Lukashenko are still in power.
I work in that field and have done for 25 years. The similarity between those designs is not solely the fact it's a lion's head - it's also includes the colour, design, allignment/aspect, and overall visual similarity. It may be that the PL take no action, as the one area that does not have a ticked box is that of 'business' similarity and the risk of consumer confusion over brand. However, political party affiliations would trump that and I have a feeling that the PL may not wish to be associated with UKIP!
I know that companies are able to register trademarks on certain colours, for example Cadbury have the trademark on purple chocolate wrappers (hence Milka use lilac) while UPS have a trademark on brown delivery vans. I can also say that one place my father used to work trademarked the shade of red, even though it was only used on letterheads, business cards and company ties. Imagine a world where teams trademarked the colour of their kit - or to put it another way, imagine the rugby scrum that comes from Atletico Madrid, Stoke, Southampton, Sunderland, Chivas Guadalajara, Red Star Belgrade and the Paraguayan national team trying to be the first to trademark having a red and white striped kit.
Probably would never happen as every club has to have 2nd or 3rd 'away' kits, which fundamentally change every year. There would be a Mexican standoff, so unlikely anyone would want to open that particular Pandora's Box
