{"id":567,"date":"2006-02-26T12:47:22","date_gmt":"2006-02-26T16:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=567"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:20:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:20:20","slug":"ttc-bullies-creator-of-station-anagram-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/02\/26\/ttc-bullies-creator-of-station-anagram-map\/","title":{"rendered":"TTC bullies creator of station anagram map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/craphound.com\/images\/anagramttcmap.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n<p>This seems rather odd, but the TTC has decided to send Robot Johnny a cease and desist letter for his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robotjohnny.com\/2006\/02\/25\/the-bitter-way\/\">anagram remix of subway station names<\/a>. I agree with the people at Boing Boing who write, <em>&#8220;Trademark is supposed to protect rightsholders from competitors who use their marks to confuse the public in the course of commerce. No one who saw RobotJohnny&#8217;s genius map would have confused it for a second with a real TTC map and sent him a subway token&#8230;. Torontonians go to bat for the TTC all the time, shouting at the province and the feds to beef up funding. We&#8217;ve put up with the disruption of the Sheppard Subway, we&#8217;ve lived through the years when they couldn&#8217;t even get the platform clocks to work. Where the hell do they get off wasting legal fees threatening bloggers for producing noncommercial humourous, harmless remixes?&#8221;<\/em> You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Render&#038;c=Article&#038;cid=1140909028182&#038;call_pageid=968332188492\">read an article<\/a> on it in the <em>Toronto Star <\/em>today.<\/p>\n<p>If you wish to make a compaint on behalf of Robot Johnny you can do so by <a href=\"https:\/\/wx.toronto.ca\/inter\/ttc\/feedback.nsf\/gcomplaint?OpenForm\">clicking here<\/a> and filling out this form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This seems rather odd, but the TTC has decided to send Robot Johnny a cease and desist letter for his anagram remix of subway station names. 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