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EU-Gericht: “Fack Ju Göhte” darf keine Marke werden – wegen Schock-Gefahr
EU-Gericht: “Fack Ju Göhte” darf keine Marke werden – wegen Schock-Gefahr
- “Fack Ju Göhte” darf nicht als Marke eingetragen werden
- Der Titel widerspricht den guten Sitten, lautet das Urteil des EU-Gerichts
“Fack Ju Göhte”. Die Filme sind ein Riesenerfolg. Es ist also nur naheliegend, die Idee weiter zu vermarkten. Zum Beispiel mit Spielen und Schmuck.
Doch ein EU-Gericht verbietet nun, dabei den Titel selbst zu verwenden. Denn der englische Ausdruck “fuck you” (deutsch: “fick dich”) und damit der gesamte Titel sei vulgär, urteilten die Luxemburger Richter am Mittwoch (Rechtssache T-69/17).
► Nichtsahnende Verbraucher könnten schockiert werden.
Das letzte Wort ist in dem Fall möglicherweise aber noch nicht gesprochen. Ob weitere rechtliche Schritte folgen, ließ der Anwalt der klagenden Constantin Film GmbH auf Anfrage zunächst offen.
“Fack Ju Göthe”-Erfolg ist kein Grund
Die Schulkomödien-Trilogie über die Chaotenklasse 10b mit Chantal (Jella Haase) und ihren Aushilfslehrer Zeki Müller (Elyas M’Barek) lockte bislang mehr als 21 Millionen Besucher ins Kino. Der dritte Teil der Reihe war 2017 der mit Abstand erfolgreichste Kinofilm in Deutschland.
Unlängst feierte “Fack Ju Göhte – Se Mjusicäl” auf der Bühne in München seinen Einstand – samt emotionalen Songs, frechen Sprüchen und einer “Romeo und Julia”-Aufführung im “Fack Ju Göhte”-Slang (O-Ton: “Julia, du Schlampe, ich will ficken!”).
Den Richtern des EU-Gerichts – der untergeordneten Kammer des Europäischen Gerichtshofs (EuGH), der als letzte Instanz noch über den Fall entscheiden könnte – ging dies alles zu weit.
Die Tatsache, dass “Fack Ju Göhte” seit dem Kinostart von Millionen Menschen gesehen worden sei, bedeute nicht, dass Verbraucher nicht an dem angemeldeten Titel Anstoß nähmen, urteilten sie weiter.
Der Titel verstößt gegen die guten Sitten
Constantin Film hatte im Jahr 2015 versucht, “Fack Ju Göhte” als Marke schützen zu lassen.
► Das zuständige Amt für geistiges Eigentum lehnte das aber ab, mit der Begründung, es verstoße gegen die guten Sitten.
Das Amt befand, dass Verbraucher in Deutschland und Österreich die Aussprache von “Fack Ju” wie den englischen Kraftausdruck “fuck you” wahrnähmen.
Auch die Verballhornung “Göhte”, mit der ein hoch angesehener Schriftsteller wie Johann Wolfgang von Goethe verunglimpft werde, lenke vom verletzenden Charakter der Beschimpfung “Fack Ju/fuck you” nicht ab, entschied das Amt weiter.
► Diese Einschätzung bestätigte das EU-Gericht nun. Würden Produkte des alltäglichen Gebrauchs mit dem Titel versehen, wären Verbraucher etwa beim normalen Einkauf mit ihm konfrontiert, befanden die Richter.
► Es sei nicht erwiesen, dass sie dann in der Marke den Titel eines erfolgreichen Film erkennen und das Ganze als Scherz auffassen würden. Dieses Argument hatte Constantin Film ursprünglich vorgebracht.
Bei der Beurteilung der Anstößigkeit des Titels müssten zudem “die Kriterien einer vernünftigen Person mit durchschnittlicher Empfindlichkeits- und Toleranzschwelle zugrunde gelegt werden”, führten die Richter weiter aus.
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The Waugh Zone Thursday January 25, 2018
The Waugh Zone Thursday January 25, 2018
1. LETTERS PRAY
Theresa May is in Davos, but back home the grumbling about her leadership is growing. Earlier this week one senior Tory confided to me that there had been a ‘mood change’ in the wake of a series of missteps including the shambolic reshuffle. Stories of the PM’s stiffness in private (one fired minister actually had to give her the words to fire them) abound, but more importantly her lack of strategic vision is now the main worry.
Bang on cue, the Sun’s Harry Cole reports that backbench 1922 Committee chairman Sir Graham Brady was ‘ashen faced’ at the prospect of ‘one more letter’ demanding a vote of no confidence in the PM. Under party rules, a vote is automatically triggered once 15% of the party (48 MPs) backs one. Back in September, the number was estimated in the thirties, but is it now over 40? Brady, a wise old owl despite his youth, has warned colleagues to ‘be careful’ given a leadership race could dismantle Brexit talks. May will be praying her backbenchers heed his advice.
Having conducted her reshuffle, the PM’s room for defensive or offensive manoeuvre is limited. But her critics know they need a trigger and one former Cabinet minister tells PoliticsHome that could be the local elections. “We’re probably going to lose every seat we’ve got in Birmingham, for example.” Others fear the loss of Barnet, Wandsworth or Westminster in London concentrate MPs’ minds. “Jeremy [Hunt] could run, Boris, Amber [Rudd], and a younger name,” one senior Tory told me. “We all know she’s terrible. Why not just get on with it?” One option is a short, sharp leadership race in May, leaving key ministers in post to get on with the day job (and get a new Government in place by the summer). After all, as one MP points out, May continued to be Home Secretary while a leadership candidate in 2016.
Iain Martin writes in the Times: “The timing [of a leadership contest] is of course sub-optimal — but May 1940 was hardly ideal either.” Aptly enough, the Telegraph reports that Trump phoned May last month, just after watching the movie Darkest Hour, and told her “You could be this generation’s Churchill”. But as May meets Trump for a bilateral in Davos today, will she get a word in edgeways? Tim Shipman reported last yearhow Trump dominates with opening lines like ‘Theresa I’ve loved you, I missed you’, refusing to let her make her points. One aide said: “He’s a crazy person but…in speaking like that he prevents all sorts of conversations. He’s completely in control.” Bloomberg has a May interview today, but Piers Morgan has landed a Trump one for ITV.
Yet it’s the PM’s lack of control over her own party that is most obvious (as the Boris NHS flare-up this week showed). This morning she may also get some very bad news on her own cherished Home Office record too. One source tells me the crime stats due out at 9.30am are expected to be dire. Add in the missed immigration target, and MPs may wonder: just what is Theresa May for?
2. KEEP THE FAITH
It appears the PM will make no direct reference to Brexit in her speech today, other than perhaps a general message of being open for business. But boy is there a lot of Brexit stuff around. The FT reports Britain is seeking a special “good faith” clause in its Brexit transition deal, fearing the EU may otherwise exploit its position to impose deliberately harmful rules on the UK. This is complicated by the fact that we want to exclude ourselves from existing “good faith” provisions in EU treaties to allow a more independent trade policy. Brussels stresses ‘sincere cooperation’ is the concept that guides all their body of laws.
David Davis’s message to Eurosceptics wary about May selling them out has so far been ‘I’m one of you, so keep the faith’. But their patience is running thin, as Jacob Rees-Mogg’s questions to him at the Brexit Select Committee showed yesterday. JRM accused DD of ‘weak’ answers on whether the UK will keep have to abide by EU rules during a two-year transition. Some think the penny has dropped for backbench Brexiteers who now fear May’s Florence speech tore up key parts of her Lancaster House speech in agreeing to a status quo period after 2019.
There was much hilarity at David Cameron’s unguarded remark that Brexit was a mistake but ‘not a disaster’ and ‘it’s turned out less badly than we thought’. Speaking of which, Treasury Perm Sec Tom Scholar told MPs yesterday that Osborne’s Project Fear forecasts totally failed to take account of fiscal or monetary responses to the Leave vote or global growth. The damage to the Treasury’s reputation caused by the whole affair should not be underestimated.
But it’s not all a rosy picture for the Brexiteers. The Times reveals Bank of England Governor Mark Carney told a Davos breakfast that the Brexit vote has cost the UK more than £200m a week in lost growth. Asked to measure the cost in ‘Brexit buses’, he did a bit of mental arithmetic and concurred that the missed opportunity “equated to between two thirds and three quarters of the £350 million” on Boris’ battlebus. OBR chief Robert Chote tells the New Statesman the UK economy is ‘weak and stable’.
Meanwhile International Trade minister Greg Hands was candid with MPs yesterday that there were ‘resource’ issues if 40 countries with EU trade deals wanted to renegotiate them. A new NAO report warns his department is not fit for Brexit, having failed to set out the “capabilities and level of capacity” it needs. Oh, and the Institute for Government says May’s reshuffles in the Brexit Department and elsewhere are undermining policymaking.
3. CULTURE CLUB
May’s leaden-footed political instincts were once again on display in her reaction to the Presidents Club groping scandal. After PMQs, her office said merely that she had been ‘uncomfortable’ on reading the FT’s damning report. By 10pm last night that had been upgraded to a new source quote: “The Prime Minister is appalled by what has been reported. This shows there is a long way to go to ensure all women are treated properly as equals.”
As it happens, two female ministers were the strongest performers yesterday. Education minister Anne Milton in the chamber had the right mix of integrity and candour that showed once again why it’s baffling she was overlooked for a Cabinet post. Her response was a sharp contrast to Nadhim Zahawi’s failure to even turn up to the frontbench, despite being seen briefing her minutes before behind the Speaker’s chair in PMQs. And on Newsnight too, minister Margot James (a former businesswoman) denounced the misconduct and hinted at changes in the law.
But the questions continue. Zahawi met the Chief Whip last night and one gets the impression that if the PM was in the country, he could be in more trouble. It’s still odd that the minister at one point said he couldn’t comment on the event as he left early, yet now it turns out he left early because he felt uncomfortable that the women were paraded around the room. Having been to previous events, had he seen similar displays or worse? We’re told he attended as a private individual, but did he use a ministerial car to get to or from the event?
Just who, if anyone, in Government (or in Cameron’s Cabinet) knew about the unsavoury element to the dinners remains unclear. And No.10 has close links to Presidents Club co-chair David Mellor. May’s deputy chief of staff and two ministers attended an ideas meeting at his Mayfair home only last October. As we report, Meller made donations to Michael Gove’s leadership bid in 2016, as well as donations to the party more widely. A key backer of the pervasive Policy Exchange crowd of wonks-turned-MPs, just what did they know? And we have yet to be told which ministers attended the men-only event previously. On the Today programme, Culture Secretary Matt Hancock just said the club’s closure was “goodbye to bad rubbish” and “I comfortably describe myself as a feminist”. He added “in my time in public life I’ve never attended anything like that”.
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Watch this baby rhino enjoy its first ever shower.
4. GREEN GOVE-RNMENT
Michael Gove’s drive to burnish the Tory party’s green credentials has been well documented. Like Boris Johnson’s bid to hail a ‘Brexit dividend’ for the NHS (a dividend that the IFS has again suggested is illusory), the Environment Secretary suggests the UK’s environmental protections can be strengthened not weakened outside the EU. He’s written a long piece for Politico Europe this morning, saying how we can ‘take back control’ for a ‘Green Brexit’.
And yet, Greenpeace’s investigatory arm, Unearthed, revealed yesterday leaked EU officials’ notes showing that British officials told their counterparts the UK will be unable to support an EU-wide target of recycling 65% of all municipal waste by 2035. Diplomats from three other EU nations, speaking on condition of anonymity, agreed that UK officials had been ‘quite blunt’ in voicing opposition to the binding recycling target. Not quite what Sir David Attenborough would want? Let alone plastics-strangled turtles. Maybe in DEFRA Questions at 9.30am, Gove can clear up the confusion.
5. YES SHE KHAN
Eight months ago, in the wake of the Manchester terror attack, Theresa May promised a new Commission for Countering Extremism. Today, campaigner Sara Khan (who has worked for several Government departments) has been appointed to head it. But within minutes of the announcement, former Tory chairwoman Sayeeda Warsi was highly critical, doubting Khan’s likely independence and credibility in a series of tweets and warned of “destructive and dangerous games” being played.
The main criticism seems to be that Khan strongly backs the controversial Prevent programme, the anti-radicalisation scheme that a UN Human Rights Council report in 2016 described as “inherently flawed.” But Khan is not alone in criticsing the balance between security and civil liberties. New reviewer of counter-terror legislation Max Hill has been vocal in opposing new ‘thought crime’ laws. In a neat bit of timing, his latest report will be published today in a Written Ministerial Statement from the Home Office.
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Vereintes Korea: Kim Jong-un verkündet ambitioniertes Vorhaben
Vereintes Korea: Kim Jong-un verkündet ambitioniertes Vorhaben
- Nordkorea hat über seine staatliche Medienagentur einen großspurigen Plan verbreiten lassen
- Demnach hofft das Kim-Regime, die zwei Koreas wieder zu vereinigen – unter Kim Jong-uns Herrschaft
Gerade erst zur Atommacht aufgestiegen, hat Nordkorea ein neues Vorhaben: Das Land strebt eine Wiedervereinigung mit Südkorea an.
► Das ließ das Kim-Regime über die staatliche Nachrichtenagentur des isolierten Staats vermitteln.
Allerdings vermutete schon am Mittwoch Mike Pompeo, der Direktor der CIA, dass es ein vereintes Korea aus Nordkoreas Sicht nur unter einer Bedingung geben könne – nämlich der, dass Diktator Kim Jong-un über dieses neue Land herrsche.
“Lass die Koreaner Schilder und Schlossmauern werden”
Die Ankündigung aus Nordkorea ist derweil in dem für die Diktatur typischen Pathos verfasst.
► In einer Botschaft an “alle Koreaner” wird zu einem “Durchbruch“ bei der Wiedervereinigung mit Südkorea aufgerufen.
“Lasst uns die Beziehungen zwischen Norden und Süden schnell verbessern und einen breiten Weg schaffen, der zu einer rosigen Zukunft unser vereinten Nationen führt, die stark und wohlhabend sein werden”, heißt es in der Meldung.
Die Koreas sollten vom “heißen Wind der Unabhängigkeit” ergriffen werden und sich gegen die Aggressionen der USA wehren, heißt es weiter: “Lass die Koreaner Schilder und Schlossmauern werden.”
Mehr zum Thema: Der Nordkorea-Konflikt ist entschieden – Kim Jong-un hat gewonnen
USA verhängen weitere Sanktionen gegen Nordkorea
Zuletzt hatte es tatsächlich eine zunehmende Annäherung zwischen Nord- und Südkorea gegeben. Diktator Kim Jong-un hatte in seiner Neujahrsansprache angeboten, Gespräche zu führen.
Nachdem diese stattfanden ist nun klar, dass Nordkorea an den olympischen Winterspielen in Südkorea teilnehmen wird – die beiden Länder wollen sogar eine gemeinsame Mannschaft im Damen-Eishockey stellen.
Die Beziehungen zwischen den USA und Nordkorea hingegen sind immer noch von gegenseitiger Aggressivität geprägt. Die Vereinigten Staaten verkündeten am Mittwoch, die Sanktionen gegen das Kim-Regime noch einmal zu verschärfen.
Die Strafmaßnahmen zielten unter anderem auf zwei nordkoreanische Firmen mit Sitz in China sowie mehrere Einzelpersonen ab, teilte das US-Finanzministerium mit.
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