Not necessarily attack…

When large organisations feel threatened it’s easy to turn to the lawyers and let the clock start ticking but that might not always acheive the desired result. You never know, it might just make things worse – something Guinness World Records’ lawyers found out when they sent a strongly-worded letter to the FAIL blog demanding the removal of its logo from one of their posts.

FAIL blog features pics of human failures with accompanying "FAIL" logos printed all over them. The post in question contained an extract from the Guinness World Records website which referred to "Most Individuals Killed In A Terrorist Act" and which also had a "Break this record" button on the same page.

Not wanting to incite further legal wrath, the FAIL blog duly removed the offending logos; they then  re-published the post, the Guinness World Records letter, oh, and their response…

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thanks for writing us an email regarding the “Record Breaking Fail”. Unfortunately, douchebaggy cyber-bullying emails will only bring upon you more shame on your house. I am also resisting the urge to write this email in ALL CAPS.

I believe it is the duty of FAIL Blog(TM) to call out organizations when they encourage the public to do such things as “Break the record” for the “Most Individuals Killed In A Terrorist Act”. We firmly believe that our publication of your fail is protected under the concepts of fair use, commentary and non-trademark use. Please RTFM and we welcome you to teh interwebs.

Since we at FAIL Blog(TM) don’t have a legal defense department, we have complied with your request to remove the trademarked term and logo from the original image. We have used the “naughty bits filter” on the image to secure your naughty, naughty, trademark assertions. However, we have posted your email so that our audience can see why we had to remove the name of the failer from the image. I hope that this is the outcome you have expected as now NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW THAT GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS LIMITED HAS FAILED.

Visit the FAIL blog to see the full post.

Via The Shark