Canon Tries To Shut Down Fake Canon Parody Blog
from the fake-fake-fake-fake dept
Thomas Hawk writes "An interesting twist over at the Fake Chuck Westfall Blog. Fake Chuck (like Fake Steve before him) has a blog out parodying Canon's real Technical Information Advisor Chuck Westfall. It seems that Canon and their lawyers over at Loeb & Loeb are none too fond of all the fun that Fake Chuck and DSLR geeks everywhere have been having at their expense and have sent Fake Chuck's blog hosting company, WordPress, a notice to take the blog down. Canon's lawyers cite that Fake Chuck's blog is "calculated to mislead recipients," even though the blog has "fake" in the title, "fake" in the URL and "fake" just about everywhere else in the blog. What in the heck is wrong with Canon, do they really think that trying to shut down a parody blog is going to make their new 5D Mark II ship any faster?"It's hard to understand Canon's reasoning here -- other than maybe to pull a "reverse" Streisand Effect and try to get more attention to the blog. After all, before this, who actually cared about a fake blog of a guy most people had no clue even existed?
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Filed Under: fake blog, fake chuck westfall, lawyers, takedown
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Re: I own a Cannon
It is good to see that WP didn't cave If it were Google that site would be gone.
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To Canon and Loeb & Loeb: Thanks for the traffic!
http://fakechuckwestfall.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/to-canon-and-loeb-loeb-thanks-for-the-t raffic/
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Three cheers for Wordpress
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Imitation...
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Canon's attorney
(http://www.loeb.com/douglas_mirell/)
"Mr. Mirell regularly reviews film footage, Internet websites, motion picture/television scripts, stage plays, newspapers, magazines and books to avoid infringing intellectual property rights and potential publication tort claims."
I can read this a few ways:
- He has a intense natural inclination to infringe and he regularly reviews various media to avoid his propensity to infringe.
- Mr. Mirell's clients have him review ......
- He is a high tech ambulance chaser.
If you read a little more on the site, he represents the MPAA and the big studios in ".... nationwide litigation against computer users who are illegally trafficking in these studios’ copyrighted motion pictures on so-called “peer-to-peer” file trading networks." So-called peer-to-peer ... Illegally trafficking ... rather inflammatory I'd say.
A interesting tie in to one of the main themes of Techdirt.
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Hi this is Fake Loeb
signed,
Fake Loeb
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DOH!
Dumbasses!
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Traffic!
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