Dumb Starbucks opens in California

[Kneepocalypse]

http://www.scpr.org/news/2014/02/08/42085/dumb-starbucks-coffee-shop-opens-in-los-feliz/

Apparently this is for real.

 

[Jimmy Tuna**]

They won't win in the end

 

[liquidfire]

i need to go to cali and open up a fat mcdonalds

 

[Noob]

I dont get it. Why are they doing this?

 

[HunterIII]

I dont get it. Why are they doing this?

$$$

 

[Ah the teep]

I dont get it. Why are they doing this?

Cause they're dumb.

 

[ElKarlo]

Coming to America, McDowell's do this?

 

[nstig8]

If real, very impressive. They even got "DUMB" on the umbrella outside.

 

[RogerTheAlien]

This will end well for them I'm sure.

 

[weed]

Starbukakkes Coffee

 

[HomerThompson]

They're going to feel dumb when Starbucks' lawyers bankrupt them in court with legal fees alone. Starbucks won't even need to win.

 

[Rhood]

These morons don't have a damn clue about the "parody law"
The parody law only works when the total suggestion is a mockery.
For example:
* This ain't Boyz in the Hood
* Pulp Friction
* Foreskin Gump

The logo also has to be changed in order to qualify as a parody.

 

[wenispinkle]

Let's start a legal battle with a corporate giant with much greater resources than us by publicly admitting that we're taking advantage of a sketchy loophole in trademark legislation.

 

[SevenSamurai]

This won't last....this is not the intent of parody law.

They must have received very dumb legal advice.

 

[BJ@LW&WW]

i think theyre gonna lose a law suit.

and if not, they should.




also, i bet their coffee is pretty damn mediocre.

 

[Seano]

Aren't they making fun of their patrons as much as they are starbucks?

 

[wenispinkle]

Starbukakkes Coffee

Lol. Even this would have been a better idea.

 

[Rex Kwon Do]

I can't believe this got so far. They actually had a sign made and opened up. Sounds like the stupid musings of a couple of stoners. "Parody law. Fucking parody law, man. We should start a Strbuck's, but call it Dumb Starbuck's instead, man. We'd mae a fortune."

 

[Gus Fring]

I will volunteer myself to try this place.
Probably next week, hopefully it'll still be there.

 

[SJBenoist]

Looks like satire, but not toward Starbucks ... toward Intellectual Property (or more correctly, Intellectual Monopoly) laws.

It's absurd. There are movements against Patent law and Copyright law, but not Trademark law. They are trying to obscure the issue with this, and I would be surprised if someone with other interest wasn't involved in this either looking for PR or legal precedent.