I have a friend who does drawing of musclecars and sells them. He had a
vendor spot at all the Carlisle events, Chryslers, All ford, and all GM. A
GM lawyer stoped at his both and told him he can't draw GM cars, they are
copyrighted. He was told if he continued GM would start legal actions.
>From: andylevy@yahoo.com
>Reply-To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
>To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
>Subject: Re: DML: spray in bedliner
>Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 14:34:30 +0000 (UTC)
>
>In article
><0F45A7A5E62CD211B8CC0008C7A402F0213E52DE@ftwntexmp002.bnsf.com>,
>Donald.Mallett@BNSF.com ("Mallett, Donald B") writes:
> >
> >
> > >>My father was telling me today that Dodge has been going after Line-X
> > about the
> > >>Ram logos they were spraying into trucks (like what I have
> > >>http://home.twcny.rr.com/andylevy/dakota/03QC/line-x.jpg) - trademark
> > >>infringement, etc. So you can't get it anymore.
> > >
> > >That's just plain stupid. Why would they do that? I can see wanting
> > >to protect your trademark, but why go through the trouble when it's
> > >promoting your product? What's next, are they going to go after the
> > >little sign shop that made the ram's head decals I bought?
> > >
> > >- -Bill
> >
> > I wanted to get some ram heads cut in vinyl to resell and the sign shop
> > asked me about trademark infringement / copyrights approval to do it.
>What's
> > the little guy to do???
>
>How about obey the law? The guy at shop was just trying to protect his
>business. He'd rather lose your $100 of business than have Dodge shut him
>down
>entirely.
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