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Swedish Retailer Pirates the Pirate Bay Logo
A Swedish online clothing and tech retailer has assumed ownership of The Pirate Bay’s logo and plans to market the iconic pirate ship – with a cassette-tape image and crossbones — on USB sticks. The company, Sandryds Handel , registered the logo with Sweden’s Patent and Registration Office. The Pirate Bay founders, who face a year in prison pending the outcome of their criminal appeal for facilitating copyright infringement, had never registered the mark and have always allowed it to be reproduced.
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The Internet has many great and well-known trademarks. There can hardly be a web user anywhere in the world who has never seen the red, yellow, blue and green of Google’s logo, and millions every day skip past the same-colored staggered lettering of auction site, eBay. Those very same colors are used in the window representation used by Microsoft.
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