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Stolen Design? Where Did You Get That Idea?
By The Boss on May 6, 2008 | In Expat, Business | 1 feedback »
Ah! News about the McTrump franchise, you know, that condo project that was all sold out but then needed a capital injection through a bond issue about which little is known. Now it turns out that some kangaroo court in our splendid republic has saved the McTrump illusion from another major setback: The Design Is NOT, we repeat, NOT stolen from the famous Burj Al-Arab hotel in Dubai. Just look at the two pictures: Where would anyone get such an idea? Aren't these two buildings TOTALLY different? Okay, both are shaped after a sail. It looks like one and the same sail. But who says they really are the same sails? Two oceanfront buildings both designed after sails and both in real estate boom locations - this is OBVIOUSLY just a coincidence, no? Anyway, who do these Arabs think they are, accusing a respectable Bananama real estate developer of ripping their design under the leased banner of Donald Trump, we ask you?
The kangaroo court has also ruled that the Arabs can't and shouldn't and won't be allowed to publish anything alleging that McTrump Club (the left pic) is just a pirated copy, a fake Vuitton bag, a cheap, ugly and plump made-in-China rip-off of the elegant Dubai original. So we won't say that either because we deeply respect Bananama's kangaroo courts and our long standing tradition of copyright theft. And the thing will probably never be finished anyway.
