As miss Abbot once said, "all white men look the same to me"...
Apple said to threaten legal action over Steve Jobs doll
If you're a Jobsian fanboi jonesing for the recently announced Steve Jobs action figure, we have some bad news for you: Apple doesn't want you to have one. So reports The Telegraph, which says that the Chinese action-figure maker In Icons has received a letter from Cupertino's lawyers threatening legal action should the 12- …
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Friday 6th January 2012 09:21 GMT Silverburn
Can I just say...
..that in this instance and ignoring the subject matter, that this is something that's come out of China that's actually quite a good job? There's some proper attention to detail there, and the replication of materials is good. The wrists could have been done better - it's all very 1980's action man - but on the whole this is a good replication.
Oh dear...I may have just let slip about my doll collection fetish...
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Friday 6th January 2012 09:24 GMT Pete 2
Number 2
> Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God,
Fortunately the Ten Commandments are now out of copyright (though presumably if they'd been sent to Disney instead of Moses, that copyright term would have been extended while there was still money to be made from them) so I can quote the above.
It does sound like part of the Jobs deification process - maybe Apple is set to turn into a church, if only for the tax breaks. Though if Apple Corp. does get into the salvation business I can't help wondering how long it will take them to patent the sacraments, copyright all the iconography then sue the Catholics, Jews, Muslims and Hindus.
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Friday 6th January 2012 09:55 GMT EddieD
Even more irrelevant...
I don't think that the descendants of Peter the Apostle, currently domiciled in the Vatican, have done that badly by exploiting the image of the Nazarene. No-one is quite sure as to the current value of the Roman Catholic church, but it's in the billions (pending lawsuits notwithstanding).
Add in the value of all the competing franchises, and that's not a small amount of wonga.
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Friday 6th January 2012 12:27 GMT Marty
its time to lawyer up....
It makes no difference if the claim has any legal legs or not, its about who can fund or are willing to fund the lawyers longer.
If the company that is producing these dolls is going to spend more money defending against the claim than they are likely to make in profits in sales then what are they going to do? the sensible thing is pull the plug on the production..
its not about right or wrong these days, its about who can afford to pay the lawyers longer...
I bet apple corp will buy up any figures they have already produced and have them on sale in the apple stores as a limited edition (with a % going to a relevant charity of course).
can we have an expensive lawyer icon please
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Friday 6th January 2012 13:54 GMT Anonymous Coward
proof, if needed.....
....that 95% of people out there are just SAD SAD SAD individuals.
Anyone buying of these monstrosities needs to be put to sleep like the rabid animal they portray.
WOW you really are a sad bunch! (Probably facebook using, iphone owning, tweeting lunatics who'll follow any fking crowd because you've no identity of your own!)
Let’s hope nature creates a disease that attacks your type and rids the planet of the dross.
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Friday 6th January 2012 22:54 GMT zen1
lol
all I can think of is a commercial that aired in the US a couple years ago, for Nissan. It involved, Barbie, Ken and G.I. Joe. Ken, complete with pink sweatter wrapped around his neck, heads over to Barbie's house, however he shows up just in time to see her hopping in a Z car with GI Joe.
Sorry, I think Apple has stepped a little too far over the line this time.
However, I do wonder who would win a hypothetical fight between a Ken doll or a Jobs doll? While I think Ken may have the physical edge, Jobs' razor sharp tongue and explosive temper might be enough to take Ken down. All he needs is a Kung fu grip and he could be an icon like Chuck Norris.