Cory and others have repeatedly rejected actionability. So your point is…..?

Rees is being S-A-R-C-A-S-T-I-C.

Case point:

“Rounded-edge text box with single line pointing to mouth? I developed that in 2001 using Quark XPress 4!!! THAT’S MY SHIT!!!”

Srsly, no-one actually beleives Rees is actually serious saying stuff like that? He’s sarcastically claiming to have invented the SPEECH BALLOON.

Still, Jamba are disingenuous arseholes for doing this

Also: Rees isn’t that popular. I mean he is sorta popular on the internet and he has a book but I doubt the average US citizen is aware of his comics and would actually think those cartoons were an endorsement on his part for Jamba Juice.

He’s in character 24/7 on the blog like Stephen Colbert. I’m waiting for Rees to make some comment discretely to BB saying, “Dude, it’s not really that big a deal, I’m just having fun with it.” Except he’d have to break character to do that.

That’s exactly what Shepard Fairey does, but BB is always clamoring to defend that guy.

“….Rees, of course, is appropriating free stock images but the Jamba Juice campaign is not doing the same thing. They are appropriating what Rees does with those images, right down to the way he renders his word balloons”

In the comments section Urbaniak talks about “uniquely Reesian word balloons”….

So I think the …”Guys, guys, guys…Rees is being S-A-R-C-A-S-T-I-C.” angle is tiresome. He is sarcastic now. This will move on into oblivion soon.

I’m reminded of when Colbert got all indignant at the Chicago Tribune for improperly crediting another source for first coining the word “truthiness.” That performance too was done in an in-character, tongue-in-cheek fashion- but the mis-attribution really WAS a journalistic error that warranted some kind of apology.

“Cory and others have repeatedly rejected actionability. So your point is…..?”

…that I wasn’t responding to Cory. (To be fair, the original post didn’t explicitly call for actionability either. I was heading them off at the pass, to use a term that might be under trademark.)

Combinations of the Public Domain are still Public Domain. You don’t get to fence them off. I don’t care if your complaint is based on the law or that vague concept of ‘moral rights.’

Also, Jamba is blended so its a combination of juices and blended fruit and ice so you really get all the fiber in the added fruit.

Just remember that most corporations are lame, and most advertising/marketing agencies are lame, and this kind of lame, dispiriting appropriation happens all the time. Just always keep that thought somewhere in your head. And drink wine instead of juice.

I pushed Quark XPress 4 to its very limits developing that word balloon style!

Because when you look at “Cubicle Picnic” (uggh, I shudder to type those words), don’t you kinda wonder, “Hmm, did the GYWO dude make this ad campaign?”

Shit, even I wondered that. And I’m me.

All my readers, all my fans: You are hereby authorized to spend money at Jamba Juice again. I don’t want my personal kerfuffle with Jamba Juice to further derail America’s economic recovery.

Also see all of GYWO and MNFTIU. Rees loves hyperbole. He knows this isn’t worth the effort, but he loves pretending like it is because it’s funny, and also funny to watch people take it too seriously – even people like Cory and Xeni, regardless of how valid their points are.

Deerhound comas indeed, reCAPTCHA. Deerhound comas indeed.

Thank you bOING bOING!

No one, not even the GYWO guy, is saying that this ad is illegal or violated copyright in any way. All the art involved is in the public domain.

What has many people upset is that while this is legal it is also an obvious rip-off of the GYWO visual style. Same clip-art, same word balloons, same everything. For Jamba Juice to do that and then to deny that they have is a dickish thing to do.

So people are upset with Jamba Juice for being no-talent classless dicks. Not due to any belief that they have done something illegal.

Would it have been any more ethical for Jamba Juice’s ad agency to have ripped-off some unknown comic artist off of a free comic forum like Drunkduck? I also wonder how many of you would be as outraged if you didn’t like GYWO? I think Rees is enjoying the situation and having fun playing up the absurdity of it, too. I think the answer is to do your own drawings, whether you do comics or ads and to make your own smoothies.

And then claims copyright on a style of word balloon???

If this is a publicity stunt, well done. If this is genuine artistic outrage, you’re not the first person to make clip art say stuff with crappy voice bubbles. I was doing that in elementary school.

BTW My Fighting Technique is Unstoppable is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read.

Boingboing (and David Rees) really should of attended the Remix lecture tour earlier this year by Professor Lawrence Lessig, artist Shepard Fairey, and author Steve Johnson. I did, and I even learned about it from BoingBoing.

It seems like the main gripe is less that David Rees’s “style” (a vague term anyway, and something I argue is unownable) was remixed. But that it was remixed by a business.

Slippery slope here gang. Probably best to just step off, and be flattered that the work was recognized.

http://boingboing.net/2009/07/21/juice-company-rips-o.html

^_^

And I thought we want people freely sharing creative elements and appropriating it for other uses?