Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Dems accuse GOP hopeful of stealing Obama's 'O'


"Built from scratch" by a local company? Then they plagiarized the O with your approval, dumbass.

AUGUSTA, Maine—The executive director of the Maine Democratic Party is accusing Republican Les Otten of taking the "O" from President Barack Obama for his own campaign Web site.

Arden Manning says Otten's "O" is nearly an exact copy of the Obama Web site's "O," which is now famous following the 2008 presidential campaign. He says Otten and Obama share "the initial O in common but that's where the similarity ends."

The attack didn't sit well with Otten. He says the Democratic Party seems to have forgotten that Obama was initially accused of copying Pepsi's logo. (ed note- Uh no, Pepsi was accused of copying Obama's O after the presidential hopeful became so popular and they changed their logo in the summer of '08.)

But he says his gubernatorial exploratory committee didn't copy anyone's Website. He says it was built "from scratch" by a locally owned company.

3 comments:

Jackie said...

I work in the commercial art field. We're always influenced by everything we see. The Obama "O" was in the awareness of that logo's designer. Unless of course he/she/they lived under a rock for the past few years! The logo may have been built from scratch but that doesn't make it original. My guess is that the Obama copyright lawyers are going to be all over this.

TexasLou said...

Can't beat him?

Co-Op his logo!

eve said...

thank, Jackie -- I was going to surmise that the "from scratch" argument wouldn't hold much legal weight

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