{"id":30,"date":"2008-07-23T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafeshoppe.com\/TeeHee\/?p=30"},"modified":"2008-07-23T06:30:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T12:30:08","slug":"zazzle-falls-to-gop-logo-threats-from-the-rnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafeshoppe.com\/TeeHee\/2008\/07\/23\/zazzle-falls-to-gop-logo-threats-from-the-rnc\/","title":{"rendered":"Zazzle Falls to GOP Logo Threats from the RNC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go again folks- the RNC got nowhere with threatening Cafepress with a cease and desist order on the GOP Logo and Red White and Blue stylized elephant, so now it&#8217;s onto the competitor, Zazzle.  Sadly it appears that Zazzle has crunched under pressure as Zazzler&#8217;s are getting this email from the company on the  current GOP Tees in the Zazzle galleries.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Dear Zazzler,<\/p>\n<p>It has come to our attention that the elephant logo of the  Republican<br \/>\nNational Committee is a registered trademark, registration number<br \/>\n1908397. The Republican National Committee has been actively<br \/>\npolicing  their mark and therefore we will be unable to create any<br \/>\nproducts bearing  the logo of the Republican National Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for using  Zazzle!<\/p>\n<p>We will be removing this product from the Zazzle galleries  shortly&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The best comment I have heard on this matter comes from fellow blogger: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/irregulartimes.com\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/07\/22\/zazzle-censors-anti-gop-criticism-in-big-wet-kiss-to-the-republican-party\/\" target=\"_blank\">Irregular Times<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thanks for standing up to the Republican censors, CafePress. And Zazzle, how very very asskissy you look in comparison. Say it with me: \u201cZazzle, asskissy. Zazzle, asskissy.\u201d It kind of rolls off the tongue, I think.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><a class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home\/?status=Zazzle+Falls+to+GOP+Logo+Threats+from+the+RNC+\" title=\"Post to Twitter\"><img class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/cafeshoppe.com\/TeeHee\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/tt-twitter-big1.png\" alt=\"[Post to Twitter]\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home\/?status=Zazzle+Falls+to+GOP+Logo+Threats+from+the+RNC+\" title=\"Post to Twitter\">Tweet This Post<\/a>&nbsp; <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go again folks- the RNC got nowhere with threatening Cafepress with a cease and desist order on the GOP Logo and Red White and Blue stylized elephant, so now it&#8217;s onto the competitor, Zazzle. Sadly it appears that Zazzle has crunched under pressure as Zazzler&#8217;s are getting this email from the company on [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[110,84,108,109,83,867],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cafeshoppe.com\/TeeHee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cafeshoppe.com\/TeeHee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cafeshoppe.com\/TeeHee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cafeshoppe.com\/TeeHee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cafeshoppe.com\/TeeHee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cafeshoppe.com\/TeeHee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cafeshoppe.com\/TeeHee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cafeshoppe.com\/TeeHee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cafeshoppe.com\/TeeHee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}