Coke Fails to Block Sprite Blowjob Spec Spot – See It Here!

Just a quick follow-up to my previous Sprite Blowjob Spec Spot kerfuffle post…

While Coca Cola Company has been doing an ok job keeping the ad off of YouTube, below is proof that getting something off the internet is about as easy as stirring your cream back out of your coffee.

That’s via the Russian site TopNews and was the fourth link on a Google video search for “Banned German Sprite Ad.”

I hope Coca Cola is glad they’ve wasted all those resources on a fools errand when they could have been laughing it off and soaking up the free publicity.

Rick-Rolling Kurt Cobain Round in His Grave

One of the most frustrating things about the way copyright law is as a tool to shut down creativity.  In the world of music, this is best exemplified by the “mashup” where an artist takes elements of pre-existing songs and remixes them into something never heard before.

This recent example, taking Rick Astley’s meme-sensation “Never Gonna Give You Up” and mashing it will Nirvana classic “Smells like Teen Spirit,” is a blast:

Now, it is hard to understand how this video could be seen as a crime against the original artists but it will likely be shut down if the creator, DJ Morgoth of Germany, ever tried to profit from his efforts.

Can you imagine the trouble an artist like Andy Warhol would have had today?  He would never have made it out the gates without a fleet of lawyers on retainer.

Also, wasn’t “Teen Spirit” a trademarked deodorant? Where was their law suit?!

McCain Uses the News as Free Ad Time

Gawker, of all places, points out this quote via the NYT:

“The number of times Senator John McCain’s new advertisement attacking Senator Barack Obama for canceling a visit with wounded troops in Germany last week has been shown fully or partly on local, national and cable newscasts: well into the hundreds.
The number of times that spot actually, truly ran as a paid commercial: roughly a dozen.”

I’ve often wondered why news programs air political ads in their entirety.  There is the idea that to discuss them they must first show them to everyone but they’re happy to discuss a speech without airing it first in its entirety.

This free publicity is common on the web, where linking and embedding are just part of the landscape – making an ad that bloggers will latch onto is not bad way to get far more publicity than you can afford.

McCain’s attacks on perceived media-bias would make a great ad for McCain. He could air it once at 5 in the morning in Topeka and CNN and Fox would spend the next week re-airing it across the nation while discussing the issue ad nauseum.

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