Apple Sues Over iGasm Ads

funkeymonkeyman writes "Apple is less than pleased with an interesting new peripheral for the iPod which promises to 'take your appreciation of music to a whole new level.' Legal action has been taken against Ann Summers, the manufacturers of the new device, specifically for the similarity of the iGasm advertisements to the iconic iPod silhouette ads. The CEO of the adult retail chain replied to the threat cheerily, 'Perhaps I can send them an iGasm to put a smile back on their faces.'"

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Let me correct the headline for you...

[nweaver]

A blatent ripoff add design specifically designed to cause confusion in the markeplace and violate trademarks was the target of apple's laywers.

Weird

[towsonu2003]

Did they trademark photos and images containing a silhouette with overexposed pixels that form a line in them? Or did they trademarked silhouettes that listen to music? Or dance?

I guess a monopoly is a monopoly, whether it is Microsoft or Apple...

This is Europe, you know

[Flying pig]

Most of us aren't too worried about these things. We really aren't too excited about what consenting adults get up to in private (well, unless we are the adults, and it's us that are getting up to it). This morning on my way to a meeting in Bath, UK, I walked up the main shopping street and Ann Summers is right there, along with M&S and Top Shop. After all, unlike those trailer sites you have in the US, they don't actually sell sex, just facilitate it. Which is what Victoria's Secret is supposed to be doing.

On the other hand, try looking for a gun shop on a UK high street, outside small towns with large farming communities and shops selling a few shotguns. It will take some time. I'm really not aware of any weird students who have gone out and murdered people with vibrators, though I guess somebody will try it some day. So exactly in what sense are sex toys "harder core"?