Someone needs to talk to Chuck.<\/p>\n
If you’ve been watching your TV over the past few months, you’ve undoubtedly seen the rotoscoped ads (edited based on user input)<\/i> from Charles Schwab that feature that tagline Talk to Chuck.<\/a>. When you visit the website, you should notice the emblem at the lower right corner: a square “talk bubble” with “talk to Chuck” inside it. Notice the style and font.<\/p>\n Now go over and have a gander at the website of self-styled conservative Republican (why anyone would call themselves that these days is beyond me) Chuck Devore<\/a>, who is challenging Barbara Boxer for her Senate seat in 2010.<\/p>\n Scroll down. Notice the “talk to Chuck” with the square talk bubbles and a very similar block font? Definitely not coincidental. And IANAL, but does this constitute some sort of infringement of intellectual property rights? After all, if I were a brokerage, I wouldn’t want to be associated with a political candidate on either end of the spectrum. Then again, if I were a political candidate on either end of the spectrum, I wouldn’t want to willingly associate myself with a brokerage house. But then again, I’m not Chuck Devore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Someone needs to talk to Chuck.<\/p>\n If you’ve been watching your TV over the past few months, you’ve undoubtedly seen the rotoscoped ads (edited based on user input)<\/i> from Charles Schwab that feature that tagline Talk to Chuck.<\/a>. When you visit the website, you should notice the emblem at the lower right corner: a square “talk bubble” with “talk to Chuck” inside it. Notice the style and font.<\/p>\n