{"id":92650,"date":"2009-12-21T14:59:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T19:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091221\/0329197445.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-21T14:59:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T19:59:29","slug":"village-people-threaten-chef-jamie-oliver-for-dressing-up-like-cowboy-indian-cop-construction-worker-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/92650","title":{"rendered":"Village People Threaten Chef Jamie Oliver For Dressing Up Like Cowboy, Indian, Cop, Construction Worker, Etc&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/profile.php?u=kaden\">Kaden<\/a> writes in to let us know that celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is facing some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2009\/dec\/18\/village-people-jamie-oliver-trailer\" >legal threats from <i>The Village People<\/i><\/a> for dressing up like them in a promotion for Oliver&#8217;s new TV show.  Apparently a lawyer representing the band said that they&#8217;ve trademarked their costumes, and if you want to dress up like them for a commercial purpose, you need to pay up.  However, Oliver&#8217;s people are noting that they don&#8217;t think he violated any trademark, and they doubt that the lawyer member of The Village People (the one in the suit) will actually go through with the lawsuit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091221\/0329197445.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091221\/0329197445.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091221\/0329197445&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=ce19c67d8c4be08c7477ec2e29263139&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=ce19c67d8c4be08c7477ec2e29263139&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=OJtbj5ybrRw:rHSx9EntlFg:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=OJtbj5ybrRw:rHSx9EntlFg:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=OJtbj5ybrRw:rHSx9EntlFg:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/OJtbj5ybrRw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaden writes in to let us know that celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is facing some legal threats from The Village People for dressing up like them in a promotion for Oliver&#8217;s new TV show. Apparently a lawyer representing the band said that they&#8217;ve trademarked their costumes, and if you want to dress up like them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92650","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}