Michael Jackson Death Hoax Investigators

Hoax Investigation => Understanding His Music & (Short) Films => Michael's Life & Clues He Left Us => Michael => Topic started by: hesouttamylife on November 06, 2010, 12:42:58 PM

Title: Prince symbol removed from MJ's cover
Post by: hesouttamylife on November 06, 2010, 12:42:58 PM: http://hiphop-n-more.com/2010/11/prince-symbol-on-michael-jacksons-new-album-cover/

This is amazing. Tell me that SONY and TMZ isn't watching us :lol:
Title: Re: Prince symbol removed from MJ's cover
Post by: PJ4MJ on November 06, 2010, 01:03:58 PM: Well, according to HipHop-n-More, a Prince fan group got the ball rolling:

http://hiphop-n-more.com/2010/11/prince ... bum-cover/ (http://hiphop-n-more.com/2010/11/prince-symbol-on-michael-jacksons-new-album-cover/)
After learning about the symbol featured on the cover, Prince’s fansite Drfunkenberry reached out to Prince’s camp who stated: “No permission was granted. Sony Entertainment has removed the symbol.”

Wow! Prince fans have some major pull, huh? ;)
Title: Re: Prince symbol removed from MJ's cover
Post by: truthprevails on November 06, 2010, 02:04:15 PM: I didn't know that Prince had exclusive use of that symbol? Did he copyright it? I thought symbols were in the public domain and anyone could use them whenever...
Title: Re: Prince symbol removed from MJ's cover
Post by: *Mo* on November 06, 2010, 02:49:36 PM: Yes he copyrighted it.

Also see this post as to how I think this was brought to the attention of Prince's camp: viewtopic.php?f=48&t=15438&start=0 (http://michaeljacksonhoaxforum.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=15438&start=0)