Another Dairy Debacle for the Sex Pistols
From the "Because they've avoided the headlines for a month dept.":
The Sex Pistols are threatening to sue a British ice cream company over it's use of the tagline "God Save the Cream," and imagery that bears a resemblance of the band's cover art, according to a story in the Guardian today. (link)
Icecreamists, the ice cream maker also features among its products an ice-cream drink called the Sex Pistol, which is essentially a shake with a shot of absinthe in it.
Part of the band's claim of infringement also includes the company's use of part of a guitar-based version of the British national anthem.
Matt O'Connor, founder of the Icecreamists, issued this statement:
We are a bit dumbfounded that a group that made its reputation for being banned is trying to ban one of our ice creams and claim copyright over the national anthem and the Queen.
Personally, I think that nothing the company is doing is blatant enough to fall outside of fair use, but one really has to wonder if the real reason behind the proposed legal action is that John Lydon is most concerned that this competition will loosen his stranglehold of Britain's dairy industry.
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Comments
Haha. Legendary Johnny Rotten indeed is, but man, he’s also quite the tool isn’t he…
Of course they are going after a dairy product, at this point in his life Lydon is lactose intolerant.
after the whole country life butter thing, i didn’t think i could lose anymore respect for john, but here it is. i guess even the most hardcore @$$holes can sell out.
Parody is permitted by law. If a fair use is made of it , I am sure that it will be no problem with copyright and so.
I personally already made a few parodies (cartoons), and showed them to the original authors, which had even signed them, with a smile on their faces. I am planning to make a comic fanzine about Punk based on my contacts with some people which I met on my first visit to London in 1976, and I am going to make a parody for the fanzine cover, based exactly on the Sex Pistols’ album cover. I wonder thet John Lydon do not argue on me
) this time
All the best.
@joao: I think he will call you that word which rhymes with “hunt”
like he does all the time. Anyway, your project seems very interesting, Good luck!
koljoz! Yes, you’re probably rigth
Concerning my comic project, I am going to contact a guy from The Tenpole Tudor that leaves near me, and try to collect some more details about that time.
It’s progress can be followed in my blog.
All the best.