{"id":237161,"date":"2010-01-27T10:48:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T15:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519bc269e20128771ad309970c"},"modified":"2010-01-27T10:48:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T15:48:44","slug":"amc-spoofs-weatherproofs-obama-ad-to-trumpet-breaking-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/237161","title":{"rendered":"AMC spoofs Weatherproof&#8217;s Obama ad to trumpet &#8216;Breaking Bad&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brandmediaweek.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834519bc269e20128771ac94d970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Amc\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834519bc269e20128771ac94d970c \" src=\"http:\/\/brandmediaweek.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834519bc269e20128771ac94d970c-580wi\" style=\"width: 560px;\"><\/img><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Why, they&#8217;re practically mirror images, these two billboards, except one features a marketer playing fast and loose with likeness rights and the other focuses on a character skirting the rules in a much bigger way. AMC, home to the groundbreaking series <em>Breaking Bad<\/em>, couldn&#8217;t resist a parody to promote the upcoming launch of the third season on March 21. The cable network chose to copy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/2010\/01\/08\/2010-01-08_waterproof_outerwear_company_says_it_will_remove_times_square_ad_featuring_presi.html\" >the maligned Weatherproof ad<\/a> that used President Obama&#8217;s image without his permission. The two sat side by side in New York&#8217;s Times Square for at least a day. AMC&#8217;s near-exact replica puts Walter White, played by Bryan Cranston, a two-time Emmy-winner in the role, in his meth-making accoutrement under the headline, &quot;You got no proof.&quot; (He sure is defiant, that high school teacher turned drug kingpin, even though his criminal enterprise is starting to fray at the seams.) The Weatherproof billboard, already scheduled for removal, is due to come down today. The brilliant <em>Breaking Bad<\/em> ad will stay up for about a month.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>\u2014Posted by T.L. Stanley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why, they&#8217;re practically mirror images, these two billboards, except one features a marketer playing fast and loose with likeness rights and the other focuses on a character skirting the rules in a much bigger way. AMC, home to the groundbreaking series Breaking Bad, couldn&#8217;t resist a parody to promote the upcoming launch of the third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}