Canada, like many other countries, considers "taking unfair advantage" of a trademark to be a distinct problem, making it less favorable to parody and other uses than the U.S. as a matter of formal law. What difference does that make in practice? From what I've seen, it means that grocery stores/pharmacies don't carry house brands that tell you they're comparable to national brands. However, it doesn't seem to affect the T-shirt offerings of tourist traps. (Side note: there was also more overt misogyny on offer than I would have expected. Really, Canada?)
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| Not quite Rolls Royce |
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| One of many John Deere alternatives--Canada also uses "fuck" more liberally at standard tourist stores |
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| MasterCard and Red Bull, sexualized |
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| Red Moose/Red Bull and Star Wars |
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| John Moose instead of John Deere; Star Wars again; and what do we think of the Montreal logo v. Adidas? This one was everywhere |
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| Mountain Dude |
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| This one is more consumer/contract law: "no contract" is also a thing in Canada; I wonder what the law is about that |
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| Right of publicity claim for the Michael Jackson estate? |
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| Snoop Dogg or just a dog? |
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| Lady PurrPurr? |
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| Queen size? |
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| A little tramp? |
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| Too close to Superman? |
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| An entire province devoted to Pokemon |
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| Pizza Pot, Zig-Zag, Addicted, Kick Ass, Fuma |
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| National Pornographic, another John Fucking Deere, sex-based "I'm Lovin' It" and some of the aforementioned misogyny |
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| Lord of the Rinks |
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| Straight Outta Quebec |
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| Starbear logo? |
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| iTunes trade dress |
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| Canada, Coke style |
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| Angry Moose |
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| Angry Beaver |
I think you will find a HUGE variation on misogyny and the use of "fuck" between provinces. Quebec culture is quite distinct in many ways - and I'm not putting a quality/qualifier judgment on that.
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