The Mayor Ken Livingstone has told the British National Party it could face legal action if it continues to publish leaflets called ‘The Londoner’.The British National Party is distributing a leaflet across London, misleadingly titled ‘The Londoner’. The front cover features the headline ‘The changing face of London’ with a photograph of Asian women and the words ‘Is this what you really want?’
The Mayor publishes a monthly newspaper called ‘The Londoner’ which is distributed to homes throughout London. The Greater London Authority has been the registered owner of ‘The Londoner’ trademark since 2002 and the British National Party has blatantly disregarded the rights of the GLA.
A legal letter to the British National Party states: “The GLA believes that you are intentionally trading on the goodwill of the GLA in the trademark of ‘The Londoner’ by using a trademark which is confusingly similar to ‘The Londoner’ and that the use of the trademark, does, or is intended to, confuse or mislead members of the public.”
The letter demands that the British National Party cease and desist from using the trademark and remove from circulation any publication using ‘The Londoner’.
The Mayor Ken Livingstone said: “The Londoner has been published for eight years and is a well-known newspaper across the capital. It is a disgrace that the BNP has deliberately chosen to trade on our good name by calling its outrageous propaganda The Londoner. Londoners should be clear that there is absolutely no link between the newspaper they receive each month and this offensive BNP leaflet.”
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Hope Nick Griffin gets sued in court, but he seems to get away with everything.
ReplyDeleteThe thing is that the nazi BNP just don’t play cricket, they don’t respect the rules of the fair game and this is why they resort to underhanded tactics such as producing a newspaper designed to mislead honest Londoners into thinking that it has come from the office of the Mayor of London.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone questioned who it is posing for photos on that disgusting BNP propaganda leaflet? Maybe if we took a closer look we could see who is really behind the masks. They play dirty and think we are stupid.
ReplyDeleteStonehenge is featured as the BNPs slogan on their site. (They've taken away the 2 little blond girls) Stonehenge our ancient and holy site dirtied by these thick racist yobs. I am Pagan and believe those that built and worshiped at the Stones were not racist but human beings aware that we are ALL children of the Earth. the solctise ceremonies include and welcome people of all races. I believe evil destroys itself and so will it be with the BNP.
Of course ancient Britons were well aware of other races thousands of miles away!
ReplyDeleteMr Darby seems to be using his blog http://www.simondarby.blogspot.com/ to deliberately provoke prosecution.
ReplyDeletePerhaps he has been advised to do so by the BNP's legal "expert" who, pressumably, must have decided that nicking a copyrighted name was just fine.
Anyone know where I can get a copy of The Londoner? I need the newsletter for my video, I can't scan mine:/
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