Keep Calm and Carry On Battling

Keep Calm and Carry On trademark battle enters new year

from The Guardian:   http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2013/jan/02/keep-calm-and-carry-on-trademark-books-poster-copyright

 

"It sounds like something out of Rumpole or A.P.Herbert's Misleading Cases. But the curious story of Northumberland booksellers, a famous slogan and copyright law is real, and taking a long time.

Barter Books in Alnwick railway station is a beloved institution in the north of England, with an extraordinary extra claim to fame. Follow their story at http://www.barterbooks.co.uk/

Its owners Stuart and Mary Manley began events which have led to a tide of variants on the slogan 'Keep Calm and Carry On' prepared in 1939 by the wartime Government in case of German invasion but never used.
The saga started in 2001 when the Manleys found one of the posters, which had survived Government recall and destruction, in a box of books bought at an auction for their vast emporium. More than 100,000 copies have since been sold by the shop, along with mouse mats, postcards, T-shirts and much else."