Comments on: New BHT Banner Needed….like….now.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:16:21 +0000

I doubt that anyone actually reported you to them. In reality, they likely have lawyers who are paid to “protect” their brand. A google search for Boar’s Head, puts your site around 5th on the list. In all likelihood, the lawyers are sending these notes to everyone in the google search results that uses a picture of a boar on their page.

You know, I actually buy their meat at the deli. I’m going to stop. I’ll save a few bucks, since their meat is a little more pricey anyways.

By: John Roop

John Roop — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:33:09 +0000

I happened across an interesting article that bears on the Boar’s Head issue, if only obliquely.

http://www.slate.com/id/2169615/

Peace of Christ,

John

By: Randy

Randy — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:07:46 +0000

I have a mounted boars head in my basement. I’d be happy, perhaps even honored, to take some pics and send them to you. You would be welcome to photoshop to your hearts content.

By: Not a lawyer

Not a lawyer — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:59:19 +0000

Nevermind. Forget what I just posted. Just saw the new banner. Very nice!

By: Not a lawyer

Not a lawyer — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:39:23 +0000

Seems to me you could just take a photo of a boar’s head, use Photoshop to create a faux woodcut photo illustration out of it, put it in a square digital “sign” (not a round one), use an Old English font for the name, and tell “Boar’s Head Brand” to take a hike. “The Boar’s Head Tavern” is not competing with or infringing on “Boar’s Head Brand” products or image. No one can confuse them; they are in totally different commercial arenas. Call their bluff.

By: David Reimer

David Reimer — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:54:26 +0000

(P.S. I fished the “old” BHT banner out of Google’s helpful cache — BoarsHead2.jpg was 742 x 218, and I see I stupidly missed by 2px on that one I linked above. Doh!)

By: David Reimer

David Reimer — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:28:46 +0000

OK. This ain’t much, but it whiled away some happy moments, and at least increases the pool.

Here are the locations of the original pics from Stock Exchange, if anyone else fancies a go with these raw materials….

Boar:
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/820852

Tavern:
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/408101

Kinda missing people though, eh….

By: Michael Spencer

Michael Spencer — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:58:41 +0000

Here’s a banner that can be a model for the size.
http://www.boarsheadtavern.com/imonkaudio/BoarsHeadTitle-Fix004.jpg

By: Nicholas Anton

Nicholas Anton — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:17:56 +0000

The U.S. of A is not the only country with ridiculous laws and law suits. Canada is following fast on it’s heels. (Did I say “following”?) So you can’t claim franchise to this type of stupidity. I looked in the dictionary for direction, but did not find much help. A boar is simply an adult un castrated (like the UN Cola) male pig. I couldn’t find what a castrated equivalent is called, other than “pig”. Nevertheless, to conform to these ingenious rights, you could change the name to Boor’s Head Tavern, and feature a head shot of the franchise owner with sour grapes in his mouth in place of the boar’s head. Or perhaps to level the gender playing field, you could change it to Sow’s Head Tavern, a place where bored men congregate.

Anyway, these “cease and desist” warnings are nothing more than troublesome jokes. Take for instance the “cease and desist” warnings on copyrighted so called Christian materials. For instance, the Four Spiritual Laws tract put out by Campus Crusade states something like the following (I hope I am paraphrasing correctly), “In order to protect the purity of the text we do not permit the unauthorized duplication of this material.” Really?
Or the permission given by the Simonites on the transparencies used on the overheads for coarses (Please excuse the alternative spelling) used in the churches that have been public domain for decades and even centuries. “Used by permission of Maximillian XXXVIII etc.” Check those used in your churches. There are plenty of examples.

Or mega dollar lawsuits against churches by so called christians such as the G——s for infringement of their copyrights. (By the way, to those who claim that the KGB oh, I mean KJV is not copyrighted, please note, this is true in all countries but in bonny England.)

Or the extra legal warnings on evangelical materials such as, “It is illegal, unethical, immoral etc. to…”. The gal in charge of the Canadian copyright laws, when I questioned her, thought it rather amusing that Christians (?) would use these arguments. She stated that the issue is simply a legal or illegal one.
Enough of this rant.

By: Michael Spencer

Michael Spencer — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:50:38 +0000

I’ll try to find out. I don’t know. Ask Bill Kinnon.