Canada CoViD mask ad

[Anonymous]

So I was playing around with streaming a show on the Android CTV app and the usual irritating ads start running. One of them was the Canada CoViD how to don/doff a mask. Cartoon-like.

It was the same colour scheme and the same eye-less humanoid as Public Mobile!

I'm like Hey! I recognize that. Did PM/Telus permit the feds to do that? Did PM/Telus make the ad? Can one copyright/trademark a certain style like that?

[Luddite]

Only the colours match for me, and for sure those cannot be copyright protected. Images have a passing resemblance to SIMon; who knew he had siblings. 🤣

[Anonymous]

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@yanzhiqiang wrote:

Want to see it, what link?

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 @yanzhiqiang 

I saw it while streaming a show. But I went looking and here it is.

 @Korth : writing rather adversorally today are we? 🙂

[Korth]

The advertising style could be deliberately manufactured and trademarked.

Or it could be a style created by whatever artist(s) Public Mobile outsourced for the work. Perhaps an advertising agency which offers this style as part of their product line.

I think it'd be hard for anyone to press legal suit about this. Public Mobile vs Public Health doesn't seem like a competition or infringement situation. And Public Mobile's visual style has (to me) seemed entirely incidental, just more annoying ad junk on a webpage, it never did anything for me - I joined because PM's plans and prices, not because PM's pretty pictures.

[yanzhiqiang]

Want to see it, what link?