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Tuesday - June 12, 2001
Apple gives satanists hell
By Macworld staff
Apple's legal team is in dispute with The Church of Satan.
The church's webmaster is an avid Mac fan and had created parodies of
Apple's Think Different advertising campaign, featuring cult leader
Anton Szandor LaVey. The site also featured Apple's familiar Made
with Macintosh Web badges and Apple logos, claims MacEvangelist.
The images were maintained on the cult's site for two years. Apple,
fearing the negative connotations of having its brand identity
connected to the Church of Satan, forced it to cease using them.
Not devil may care
Apple's legal firm, Arent Fox, insisted the images be removed, on the
grounds of trademark infringement. Its statement read: "Apple
believes that your use of the Made With Macintosh and Think Different
badges in this manner is likely to tarnish the goodwill associated
with the Apple trademark."
The Church contends that its Web site was built on a Mac, and that
the cult's webmaster was proud of this. It also believes that Apple's
'Think Different' slogan is close to its own beliefs, arguing that
the company's decision to force the Church to remove the images is
tantamount to a suppression of belief.
Cult webmaster Peter Gilmore said: "View with fresh perspective the
company which introduced its Macintosh using a lengthy commercial
dramatizing an athletic young woman smashing the grey visage of an
Orwellian dictator on a video screen. She burst through the ragged,
shuffling hordes, a vision of Satanic splendor, and refused to submit
to conformity.
"If we were making this again today, the face on the screen could be
that of Steve Jobs, and Apple's lawyers might be huddling amongst the
masses, only moving away from the crowd to stick out a foot in an
attempt to trip the heroine on her dash towards the promotion of
independent thought."
Evil logo
Gilmore added spookily: "It is also amusing to us that this company
uses as a corporate logo an apple with a bite taken from it, which
certainly appears to be a reference to that other famous apple. We
have not forgotten that forbidden fruit, which would impart knowledge
of Good and Evil, offered to Eve in that mythical garden by none
other than the serpent, an avatar of Satan himself. Is it not then
strange that they seem to fear the admiration of the Church of Satan?
As Anton LaVey himself would have said, 'They want to dance, but
their feet won't let them' ."
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