In a landmark European Court decision, sporting giant Adidas has not only won protective status for their three stripe logo, but has also established copy right protection of the letters in the company name.
As a result of this ruling, strict new letter usage laws will be enforced from the end of this sentence.
No one wntng to ue thee letter n document n pper wll nee to negotte "rght to ue" greement with th compny. Extng book n publcton wll become ubject to lcence pyment.
There re concern tht Mzon, Krft n Mcrooft wll lunch mlr collectve cton, mkng the Wetern Lphbet unusble except n text mege.
Protet t th rulng re hmpere by no one beng ble to re ther forml wrtten objecton.
First published 15 Jan 2023
If you enjoyed this archive item, why not buy thousands of archive stories found in our eBooks, paperbacks and hardbacks?
 |  |  |  |
Faced with a five billion dollar legal claim from Donald Trump, the BBC has closed down. 'The BBC has no assets to speak of,' said a spokesman. 'Even the test card is owned by someone else. There's nothing left.'
Now that the BBC has closed down, Donald Trump will not be able to recover any damages, and the BBC will not defend the case.
Viewers need not worry, however. All of the BBC's staff will be taken on by a completely unrelated new body called BBC (2025) Limited. The new body will take over certain assets from the old BBC, but will neither take on responsibility for that Panorama program, nor liabilities such as the Trump lawsuit. The new BBC has promised to minimise disruption for viewers by honouring the schedules and programmes of the old BBC. The government has confirmed that BBC (2025) Limited will be able to receive funding from the licence fee.
A spokesman for the old BBC said, ‘We regret that the reckless actions of a greedy and malicious orange man-baby has killed off the BBC. Long live BBC (2025) Limited.’
image from google gemini