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Canon Tries To Shut Down "Fake" Canon Blog

Posted by kdawson on from the what-part-of-fake-do-you-not-understand dept.

Thomas Hawk writes "An interesting twist over at the Fake Chuck Westfall Blog. Fake Chuck (like Fake Steve before him) has a blog out parodying Canon's real Technical Information Advisor Chuck Westfall. It seems that Canon and their lawyers over at Loeb & Loeb are none too fond of all the fun that Fake Chuck and DSLR geeks everywhere have been having at their expense and have sent Fake Chuck's blog hosting company, WordPress, a notice to take the blog down. Canon's lawyers cite that Fake Chuck's blog is 'calculated to mislead recipients,' even though the blog has 'fake' in the title, 'fake' in the URL and 'fake' just about everywhere else in the blog. What in the heck is wrong with Canon? Do they really think that trying to shut down a parody blog is going to make their new 5D Mark II ship any faster?" After Fake Chuck removed the Canon logo from his site, WordPress is standing behind him and has rebuffed Canon's demand.

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  1. Fake First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This post has fake all over it, so you can't mod it down.

    1. Re:Fake First Post by Dachannien · · Score: 5, Funny

      I only have fake mod points today, so I fake modded you down.

  2. Guess business is kinda slow by iminplaya · · Score: 5, Insightful

    More free press for Canon. The real intention all along. Good job.

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  3. You'd think by now... by DeadPixels · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Companies would realize that not liking someone's views doesn't give them the right to censor the person.

    1. Re:You'd think by now... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      In this case, though, the views expressed are decidedly noncanonical.

    2. Re:You'd think by now... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      ...that the above poster would have noticed the 'fake' in the author's pseudonym.

    3. Re:You'd think by now... by Chabil+Ha' · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Risking being off-topic, but seeing these all the time since the new "Web 2.0" upgrades to the slashcode has now drawn out the 'troll'.

      Please! Put the 'moderate' *button* back. Simply putting taking action on an index change on the drop down list makes it so that people can accidentally mod the wrong way. It's only by good fortune that there are some people who decided to post something in response to remove the moderation. By putting the button back to confirm the selection, you avoid the mess of people posting to remove moderation and posts like these to beg for that simple piece of functionality be put back.

      The Karma Whores will love you for it.

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      We're all hypocrites. We all have hidden parts, it's the contrast between them that make us more a hypocrite than others
    4. Re:You'd think by now... by roguetrick · · Score: 5, Funny

      I tried to mod you offtopic but I ended up modding you insightful.

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  4. Fake MWoody says... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...I'm a complete moron!

    --Fake MWoody

  5. Bad Summary by the+eric+conspiracy · · Score: 5, Informative

    The take down letter asked for 4 things:

    1. Stop using the Canon logo.
    2. Remove references to violence.
    3. Remove references to Chuck's family.
    4. Changes to the look and feel of the blog so it would not be
    confused with actual Canon corporate sites.

    It wasn't a totally unreasonable blanket take-down demand, and as such Fake Chuck will easily be able to comply and continue as a source of satire and humor.

  6. I would not even have removed the logo by Jane+Q.+Public · · Score: 5, Informative

    since using it in obvious parody is protected fair use.