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Clap, Clap, Clap, good job, you got me. I was saying to my wife how ridiculous, what's the world coming to... then got the the 1st April bit...
Well done! Very creative.
It is matter of trademark registration rather than copyright.
Particularly registration of words such as "Champagne", "Whisky" and "Cognac" are known as Geographic Indicators, 'GI'. The EU has 134 GIs.
GIs require an application to a particular nation's IP office and evidence is required to use a GI as a trademark to the exclusion of other entities.
In this case it would be difficult to register 'Zoo' as a GI as there are zoos worldwide with little or no evidence of a zoo exclusively to a region in Dubbo.
In addition there is no body callwed Wazoo or Nazoo.
Therefore this is an April 1 prank.
Thank you,
Anthony, of lots of April 1 pranks rely on some facts missing like not being allowed to fly an aeroplane under The Harbour Bridge, Belfield, in the land of the Wangal and Darug Peoples of the Eora Nation.