Muhammad…trademarked?

June 13, 2008

Apparently, a Canadian Muslim has trademarked — ed, rather — the image of the (false) prophet of , .

You know? Muhammad? This guy:

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Yeah…him. Apparently, depictions of Muhammad are now a registered copyright of one Mr. of , .

(Etobicoke…hey, isn’t that where Shaukat lives? What gives?)

I must admit: it’s a rather unique way of implementing , although I doubt it would stand up to a court challenge. Failing that, I guess I’ll have to rely on “fair use” provision to get by, eh?

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