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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday June 29 2017, @09:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the photoshop-this dept.

Time magazine has asked the Trump organisation to remove fake Time Magazine covers bearing his image that were on display at his golf clubs.

[...] The cover was reportedly on display at four other golf clubs owned by the US president.

The image, dated 1 March 2009, had never run in the magazine in any format, a Time spokeswoman said. The real March edition featured actor Kate Winslet.

"I can confirm that this is not a real Time cover," Kerri Chyka wrote to the Post. The paper said Time had asked the Trump organisation to remove the covers from display.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/28/time-magazinetrump-fake-covers-golf-clubs


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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 29 2017, @11:55PM (3 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday June 29 2017, @11:55PM (#533173) Journal

    Putting several copies on public display: that shows a level of narcissism that is not healthy.

    Borderline fraud considering he was effectively advertising his business with it.

    Trademark infringement at the least.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @05:00AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @05:00AM (#533297)

    Why do we let fucking massive retards have computers? They should be locked away in a gulag where they can't accidentally infect normal humans with their severe stupidity.

    If possessing a fake magazine cover is a crime, then every person who has ever used a snapshot photo booth at a mall is guilty. If Trump was attempting to sell magazines with Time's branding on them, that would indeed be a trademark violation. But there are certainly no laws that say you can't draw your own and put it on your own wall.

    Why do I have to explain this perfectly obvious concept to such brutal morons? How does someone so vastly idiotic even manage to make their way to this corner of the internet? It's supposed to be for reasonably intelligent people, not sub-human neanderthals.

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by gtomorrow on Friday June 30 2017, @06:36AM

      by gtomorrow (2230) on Friday June 30 2017, @06:36AM (#533318)

      Ok, AC...take a deep breath...count to ten...and let Uncle Grey explain it to you.

      Although IANAL a private citizen can hang a fake magazine cover in his/her place of dwelling, no problem. I'm pretty sure that in the workplace, if you have something of that nature hanging in your office, away from the public, that's cool as well. But once you've got a fake magazine cover on display in the workplace where the public can see it, you're crossing a line. When you've got four of them prominently displayed in four different places of business, it's looking very much like standard decor and without prior consent, it's trademark infringement. You're implying that TIME Magazine endorses your fake cover.

      Your example of "snapshot photo booth": if there is the choice of having a REAL magazine cover framing your face, you can be sure that the photo booth owners have paid a licensing fee/royalty to said magazine owner. Otherwise it's trademark infringement, plain and simple.

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by DutchUncle on Friday June 30 2017, @07:21PM

      by DutchUncle (5370) on Friday June 30 2017, @07:21PM (#533634)

      This isn't just photography, it's forgery. The fake magazine covers from the snapshot booths are typically fake "sports" or "beauty" or "personality" themed titles that don't exist in the real commercial world. Putting such a up in your den or cubicle is pretty clearly a joke. Falsifying a Time magazine cover (particularly considering that Trump has actually been on real Time covers over the years, well before this election cycle), and using it in a commercial establishment with the suggestion that it is real, is forging Time Inc's name on a document that they never produced.

      You can jump to conclusions all you want, but you don't have to be an ass about it.