
Ran across this last week at Major Nelson's place. According to the ChatterBox forums, where the flyer turned up, a church in the Phoenix, AZ area has "borrowed" the Xbox 360 branding to promote themselves. Alon from ChatterBox sums it up pretty well, "I'm half flattered, half pissed, and half mesmerized by the size of their balls."
First Jesus was "discovered" on some Xbox 360 packaging, now this...
Click the "Read" link to see the back of the flyer.
[Via Major Nelson]
1. It's one thing to be "inspired" by another artists designs, but this blatantly rips off several of the 360 design elements. Whoever came up with this horrific copyright infringing idea needs to be fired. Believe it or not, it's possible to create an youth targeted ad without "borrowing" ideas from other people. Now, I haven't been to church in a long time, and the rules may have changed, but I'm pretty certain one of the commandments was "thouest shant stealist" or something like that. Maybe the new "hip" church threw that old stodgy rule out.
I doubt MS will sue since it is a church and no real damage has been done, most likely MS will just send a strongly worded cease and desist letter and nothing else will be done. But churches need to know that they are not above copyright laws just because they are non-profit.
Posted at 4:41PM on Feb 21st 2006 by Art Guy 0 stars