Re: Too freakin' freaky

Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@hotpop.com)
Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:08:23 +1100

Jason wrote:
> BTW: does anyone know the copyright laws dealing with taking someone
> else's work and making major modifications to it?  For example: you know
> that Andy Warhol picture of Maryland Monroe?  If he didn't shoot the
> original photo, but just colored it and made prints, is it copyright
> infrindgement?

I dunno but it is a spelling mistake (:
Seriously, I'm not sure but I can tell you a strange course of events that
occured at a restaurant not far from here called Betty's Soup Kitchen. Their
logo was a giant red and white soup can, there was an enormous 3D one on the
sign and even the floor tiles had the logo on it. It had been like that for
years. Anyway, out of the blue Campbell's Soup kicks up a big stink about
the misuse of their logo and the insinuation that the restaurant were
serving Campbell's soup inside, etc, etc. There was not a mention of the
brand the soup was, just the red and white can. Three interesting, bizarre
things can be ascertained from this:
1) It was actually the success of Warhol's soup can pictures that convinced
Campbells to retain their old logo and red and white cans
2) It was actually Warhol that made the cans famous in the first place
3) Betty's Soup Kitchen's logo was actually a homage to Warhol, not
Campbell's Soup. But no, they made them paint over the logo and actually
chip out each and every floor tile.

In conclusion, I don't know (:

Camille