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Cake Gate -- Trump Inaugural Orders Replica of Obama's Inaugural Cake

How lazy or shady are Trump staffers working on his Presidential Inaugural Committee? The organizers of the Salute to Our Armed Services Ball couldn't be bothered to come up with even an idea for Trump's Inaugural cake, so they picked out a local bakery and brought them a photo of Obmama's inaugural cake and asked for an exact replica -- no deviations.

“They came to us a couple of weeks ago, which is pretty last minute, and said ‘We have a photo that we would like to replicate,’ ” MacIsaac told The Washington Post by phone. Her bakery tried to encourage the client to use the photo as “inspiration,” as they do with many others, she said.

“They said, ‘Nope, they want this exact cake. It’s perfect.’ And we said, great,” MacIsaac said. Neither she nor her spokeswoman revealed who placed the order.

Duff Goldman (one of the judges on Food Network's kids baking show) who owns a bakery in Baltimore made Obama's cake. He noticed the similarity and tweeted photos of both cakes with a statement he made Obama's cake but didn't make Trumps.

What kind of bakery copies another baker's design and doesn't give credit until after being confronted with the copying? Duff, however, is
now cool with it and congratulated the copycat bakers on their efforts.

The copycat bakers, having been exposed, are now crediting Duff's great design and trying to make amends by donating their profits to Human Rights Campaign.

The copycat bakers' amends do not excuse the laziness or shadiness of the Trump Inaugural employee who placed the order.

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    But it was not an exact replica, Jeralyn (none / 0) (#1)
    by Towanda on Sun Jan 22, 2017 at 01:08:18 AM EST
    . . . because it was a fake cake.

    Seriously.  The Trump cake was styrofoam, with one slice of actual, edible cake.

    Goldman's confection, by comparison, actually was a cake -- or many cakes, in many flavors, all of which made me crave a slice just from reading the description.

    Copying (none / 0) (#2)
    by yerioy on Sun Jan 22, 2017 at 02:22:07 PM EST
    Is this considered intellectual property?

    Actually (none / 0) (#3)
    by Repack Rider on Sun Jan 22, 2017 at 03:12:34 PM EST
    ...I believe there is a copyright case to be made, since the faker of the second cake received compensation while using an artistic image created by another.

    You do not have to register a copyright in order for your work to be protected.  Creating the work qualifies you as a copyright.

    I have created hundreds of copyright images and magazine articles, never registered any. but I have successfully defended them.

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    Duff Goldman (none / 0) (#4)
    by linea on Sun Jan 22, 2017 at 03:45:09 PM EST
    designed the original cake.

    im not sure how this would work.  the second baker didnt copy dg's cake to sell to the public. a customer asked the second baker to make a slightly altered version of dg's cake.  people do that with wedding rings and bridal gowns all the time.

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