Monday, November 05, 2007

Don't Post any Pictures of the Canadian Penny on your Website

Webmasters beware. The City of Toronto was hit with a $47,680 fee by the Royal Canadian Mint for using a picture of the Canadian penny, the words 'one cent' in its ads, and the letters 'onecent' in its email address, to promote a one cent increase in sales tax. The mint claims that they are registered trademarks.

2 comments:

Kevin said...

How on earth are common words of the English language trade marks.

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Stockerblog said...

Good question! I think the city of Toronto wants to know the same thing.