Being an Ancient Greek, what’s all the fuss about? I can’t see this colour anyway.
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Stuart Semple seems like one of those classic “I like what he does, but OMG does he seem like a total knob” type of situations.
Guess it takes a certain type of personality to do this type of work.
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That depends, is there a legal definition of “color”? How does it relate to the biological, psychological, chemical, and physical meanings? Are the rules the same for pigments and dyes, interference filters and structural coloration, and fluorescence/phosphorescence/other lighting?
@Brainspore Well sure, if you want to be boring and right about it 
They can’t, unless it’s going to create an association within the same class of goods/services (eg another jeweler using the signature color for its boxes), or tarnish a famous mark (no consumer confusion if you launch a porn site at Tiffanys.xxx and use this color all over it, but can argue it denigrates the brand). There’s is a tremendously remote possibility that selling paint in this manner could be viewed as contributory liability/inducement to infringe, but unlikely.
What’s more, BB authors all know that perfectly well, they just like amplifying certain kinds of trolls who are marketing products based on “irreverent” quasi-populism in the IP world. There is interesting art and activism that asks questions about where the lines between expression and commercial protection should be drawn, but this is just someone saying “hey look at me everyone, I’m almost touching the line!” … and wanting to be paid for it.
Attempted to convert picture to TIFF…
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Oh well… you’ll have to make your own TIFF.tiff
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