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Fandoms: Main: SPN, Merlin, In the Flesh, My Immortal Web Series, 10th Kingdom, Edmund Pevensie (he's his own fandom, shut up,) Carmilla!!! Secondary: AHS Freakshow, Almost Human, Sleepy Hollow Third...ary?: Kpop, sometimes Teen Wolf, sometimes...
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No Gucci in the Afterlife

The NYT has one of the most absurd stories I’ve seen about intellectual property rights in fashion. Gucci recently sent cease and desist letters to Hong Kong shopkeepers – ones that sell joss paper and paper crafts to be burned as offerings for the deceased. 

For those unfamiliar, burning fake paper money and objects is an old Asian tradition, mostly practiced in China, although also parts of Southeast Asia such as Vietnam. They’re often sent along with written prayers and letters. The idea is that the deceased can then enjoy your offerings in the afterlife. 

Since it’s 2016, those paper crafts can include things such as smartphones, internet routers, Apple watches, Chanel bags, and Gucci loafers. Except Gucci now feels these things infringe on their trademark. An except:

Last week, its parent company, Paris-based Kering, sent a letter to six local stores that sell the paper offerings, telling them to stop selling replicas of Gucci products because they were using its famous trademark that graces shoes, wallets, hats, jewelry and women’s purses.
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But Ms. Lee said Gucci would have a difficult time proving that makers of paper offerings infringed on its trademark. To successfully sue for trademark infringement, she said, a company has to demonstrate that people confuse the cardboard replicas with real Gucci products, which is highly unlikely.
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Instead of laughter, Gucci’s letter, which threatened no legal action and asked for no compensation, prompted compliance from some of the shops that sell the paper offerings. Along Java Road, Gucci-branded offerings for the dead disappeared from the shelves, as shopkeepers feared that their tiny businesses could collapse if subjected to a lawsuit.
Sitting on a stool in the back of one shop, past the incense and ersatz packs of cigarettes from brands like “Danhill,” Lucky Strlke,” “Marlbero” and “Sailem,” one proprietor, who asked to be identified by only her last name, Chan, said she and others had little choice because their businesses were so small.
For Gucci, it was an easy win, even though its letter did draw some ridicule in the local press.
“The symbolism of a global, multibillion-dollar luxury company ‘warning’ perhaps some of the poorest retailers in the city over items that could not ever be taken for the real thing just seems a little bullying,” Jing Zhang, fashion editor for The South China Morning Post, wrote Tuesday.

You can read the rest here. 

#Oh no#China#Global#Gucci#Bad Things#This is awful
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Cassandra Clare HATES the show, she complained about it non-stop, tried to get the writters fired... You hate her? Watch the show, enjoy it, and never stop talking about how much better it is than the books :D

#This is the best#Anti Cassandra Clare#Dragon knows what Dragon is watching later#Nonny Nibbles#Ask Dragon#asks#ask#Tbh I exaggerated earlier when I said I hate Cassandra Clare#it's more that I hate her principles#and this makes me hate them all the more#why do you have to try to get ppl fired CC?#why is that a thing for you?
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igxbaddies

Kids be so damn cute and innocent like how

Awwww

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scumbag-vanguard

This story was different actually??? And even better??? The girl, Brooklyn Andracke, used to wave at the truck every thursday and the trashman waved her back. It was a very important to her to do it every week.  It was HER birthday, and she decided that she wanted to share her birthday cake with the trashman. She also wanted to meet her hero, whose name is Delvar Dopson.

The girl’s mother thanked Delvar for his work and explained to him how important it is for Brooklyn to wave at him every thursday. He was pretty surprised but he admitted that every time he drove near the house he hoped that the girl would wave at him.  That’s not the end of the story though. Next week Delvar had a surprise for the little girl.

He brought her a bunch of amazing birthday gifts!

They both got quite popular, and Delvar is getting a lot of thank you messages from trashmen from all over the world for representing them in such a good way.

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kandyie

The real story is even cuter 😩💕

!!!

this is the cutest god damn thing im crying this is absolutely precious

Source: igxbaddies
#That's so amazing#Waste Management#Trashmen#Denver Dopson#Nice Things
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acnara

Shipping a Problematic™ ship

The first time you get hate because ´you can´t ship that

The second time 

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And then it happens again

And again

Do you hate X character? Or do you have a weird real-life fetish? Do you want that kind of relationship for YOURSELF?

Ugh I hate when people Romanticize™ …

You DO realize you are basically supporting ABUSE RIGHT?

But how… 

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You are disgusting

People like you are the reason-

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And, in the end, you keep shipping despite the hate

And creating amazing and complicated work 

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Because you rock

So don´t let hate get to you, and keep shipping whatever you want. Bless you.

#I'm reblogging this bc it's relevant to a recent reply I just posted#Gif Warning#Multiple Gifs#Problematic Dragon#Fandom wank#last fandom post I promise
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