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I am the Jammie King!




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Date: Feb 9, 2007
No more red...


I was just browsing the Royal Mail website (as you do) and came across the following copyright statement at the bottom of this page:

Royal Mail, the Royal Mail Cruciform, the colour red and SmartStamp are all registered trademarks of Royal Mail Group plc.

The colour red is copyrighted?

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Sorry... I must have the wrong street.

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Date: Feb 12, 2007

You can't copyright a colour as such, but you can specific shades, or at least trademark them. For example Ferrari red is owned by Ferrari and no other manufacturer is able to use that shade without prior permission from Ferrari. Hard to stop really but Fender were asked to pay a fortune when they used it on their Strats iirc, they seemed to get around it by making that run a "Ferrari Strat" and using other Ferrari parts, charging a fortune and paying a license fee for it.

Bonkers, init.

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I am the Jammie King!




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Date: Feb 12, 2007

I wonder if we can trademark jammie dodger jam red.

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For entertainment purposes only!


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Date: Feb 12, 2007

definitly - as long as its an original colour and we didn't pinch it from somewhere

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I am the Jammie King!




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Date: Feb 13, 2007

Like... er... jammie dodgers?

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