Attorney General asked to investigate Bachmann’s state fair ad
Wednesday, September 01, 2010 at 7:36 pm
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Rep. Michele Bachmann’s most recent television ad raised the ire of the Minnesota State Fair for using its logo without permission. The Bachmann campaign swapped the logo out with a generic one (at right), but Minnesota Public Radio reports that may not be enough to get the campaign out of copyright trouble. Further, when the fair learned that the old ads were still running on Wednesday evening, a spokesperson said they have brought in the Attorney General to investigate that matter as well.
State Fair spokeswoman Brienna Schuette told MPR, “The AG is now involved in getting the Minnesota State Fair name and logo pulled. It appears that the ads with the original logo are still running on some stations.”
Aside from the issues surrounding the use of the fair’s logo, the ad also failed a fact-check at PoliGraph on Wednesday.
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Comment posted September 1, 2010 @ 11:22 pm
Still looks like a copyright infringement to me. Gee, could we mistake “Minnesota State Fair” for something other than the Minnesota State Fair?????
Comment posted September 2, 2010 @ 9:55 am
Not to mention, Lou, it looks a hell of a lot like the original logo. The font is extremely similar.
Comment posted September 2, 2010 @ 10:30 am
Gee, Bachmann’s media experts must have had NO IDEA that you can’t use other organization’s copyrighted logos or trademarks without prior permission. Who could have known that? An honest mistake made by highly paid professionals, apparently.
The infringing commercial is still running? Well, you can’t blame Bachmann for that, if some traffic coordinator at TV stations can’t run the “new” version. Or didn’t get the “new” version yet. Or got the “new” version without instructions. I mean, these things are complicated.
Well done. Deliberate copyright infringement with an intentionally incompetent distribution of the new commercial and instructions. Jesus is so proud.
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