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Cakegate

We aren’t even a full 24 hours into the new administration and we already have our first scandal.  Celebrity chef Duff Goldman took one look at the inauguration cake last night and declared that it was a ripoff of his design for Obama’s second inauguration.

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Was the design copyright protected and if so who owns the copyright today?

 

 

33 Comments on Cakegate

  1. Not good. How hard would it be to come up with an original design. What about a basket weave pattern in the fondant/icing to represent the “basket of deplorable.”

    It’s also not executed as well as the original cake. The edges aren’t clean and straight.

    Whoever thought this was a good idea really needs to be smacked upside the head and/or fired.

  2. The one on the left has ghetto lite all over it.

    The right one is clearly a do over, which is a clear indication that the cake maker wanted to correct his previous error.

    By the way, only a fag would have noticed the similarities. Faggit, get a life.

  3. No one is going to rain on my (now) Day(s) of Jubilee! I’ve turned off the tee vee and making The World’s Best Lasagne for Geoff C. B-day today. Though of much humbler proportions, he will then dine on Queen Elizabeth Spice Cake with a maple buttercream icing.

  4. If the design was copyrighted, he would have said so. Lefties are incapable of playing their cards close to the vest. No case except in the court of public opinion. That won’t stop some journo from speculating about a little-known parliamentary trick to grandfather in the copyright and impeach Cheeto Jesus.

  5. Since the 2013 cake was purchased by the US Government, any copyright went with it. Being government property, is it not in the public domain? Case dismissed.

    I am not a lawyer. I did not sleep in a Holiday Inn Express.

  6. I suspect the WH could claim that the original was done on a work-for-hire basis, which means he was on contract and his employer, the WH, retains copyright over the work they paid him to provide. If Goldman took no remuneration for his creation his design should be considered a donation to the nation, which puts it in the public domain.

    Either way, he’s going to have a hard time filing a copyright infringement case, to where it’s more expense than worth it.

  7. OK THIS is the Really takes the cake. Jet Blue made a Cuban cake to celebrate their charter flights. You must see it to believe it, honoring Che Guevara.
    Babalu Blog
    WARNING if you tab down below the cake there is a scene of someone being executed by firing squad.

    http://babalublog.com/2016/09/04/jetblue-shames-kaepernick-to-celebrate-new-cuba-flights-jetblue-bakes-a-che-guevara-cake-the-terrorist-mass-murderer-who-denounced-jetblue-customers-as-hyenas-fit-only-for-extermination/

  8. O they got him now. They got him but good. He’s phucked, I tell you, phucked but good. Grounds for impeachment. And if the cake maker was a flaming homosexual, make it a hate crime. Bye, bye Donald “sure we hardly knew ya lad.”

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