Utynam's Heirs
01 February 2010
A monthly column devoted to IP curiosities and controversies, named in honour of John of Utynam - who received the world's first recorded patent in 1449
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Strike one
Red faces all around at France's controversial copyright enforcement agency Hadopi (Haute autorité pour la diffusion des oeuvres et la protection des droits sur internet).
After months of political and legal wrangling, Hadopi was finally created at the end of 2009. France's best bureaucrats immediately decided that, like any self-respecting government agency, Hadopi had to have a logo.
This was duly unveiled by French culture minister Frédéric Mitterand, who said that he was pleased that the agency "finally had a face".
Unfortunately the face didn't quite fit. The body set up to police copyright infringement on the internet had failed to obtain copyright clearance for its own logo.
The font used to create the logo was apparently owned by France Télécom and created by graphic designer Jean-François Porchez in 2000.
The design agency behind...
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