That is funny, and amazing.
“Film director Peter Jackson may face legal action over his plans to install a version of the famous Hollywood sign in New Zealand, according to reports.
The proposed Wellywood sign would sit above the Oscar-winning director’s studios in his home city of Wellington.
But the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which owns the original sign in Los Angeles, has threatened legal action.
“The sign is trademarked,” president Leron Gubler told the Telegraph,”and we constantly enforce our trademarks”.
“It’s fine for them to put up a sign, just don’t duplicate ours.”
Jackson, best known for his Academy Award-winning adaptation The Lord of the Rings, had hoped to emulate the original 1923 sign, but has been warned that the font and staggered lettering of the sign constitute the trademark.”
Isn’t it ever! That’s just one of the many bits of (useless?) trivia floating around in my head.