http://www.th3digitalmind.com/images/shirtfront.jpg
http://www.th3digitalmind.com/images/shirtback.jpg
i don't know if these are the final shirts but the logo on the front of the t says it wont come out good cause the picture is too small .......thanks
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*** This post was edited by Kevin Lehman 5/9/2003 7:30:27 AM ***
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Copyright law is vauge about such things (http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html). This isn't a clear case for fair use, but it isn't a clear case agianst it either.
Of the four points listed:
1) "nonprofit educational purposes" Your shirts are nonprofit. They can be educational if you want to press it. Call it a physics lesson :).
2) Cant help you there, dont know enough. The fact that the logo was ment for t-shirts might hurt.
3) You are using the logo as part of your shirt. You are not just making a knock off of their shirts.
4) Since you are making the shirts for a small group, not selling them, not making a lot. This point helps a lot.
So, go ahead. People have been doing the same thing for a while, and fair use may be on your side.
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If you did open up a site, I might be a prospect as a buyer, just kidding, those shirts rock! Go for it, if you do get yelled at, play dumb or somethign, you'll just have to turn them inside out. They wont get mad. They dont want to make the customer angry, cause then they'll tell people and Cedar Point gets a bad rap. Its like how they say they will but never actully do kick you out for line cutitng. GO FOR IT!
Copyright and trademark are not the same thing. If you don't know the difference, try reading up on the subject. When you're done, call Cedar Point's marketing office and ask them if they're OK with you using their trademarks.
Profit has zero to do with it. Think about it. Nobody made a dime by trading music on Napster, yet the courts very plainly indicated that such trading was copyright infringement.
Trademarks identify a brand, and may not be used by other entities. Failure to enforce your trademark rights is grounds for losing it all together, so again, ask if they'd be OK with it. I already know what the answer is.
Leave the law to people who have expertise in the intellectual property field.
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Harliquin_Lynx said:
I mean come on, if there were an issue with it don't you think CP would come down on the employees every year for making crew shirts.
I know for a fact that the Snake crew last year had to jump though hoops and play dead for the company before they were able to put the Snake River Falls logo on their shirts.
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Jeff said:
You kids are exactly the reason that movie studios and record labels are trying to get legislation passed to protect their intellectual property by limiting the technology we can use.Copyright and trademark are not the same thing. If you don't know the difference, try reading up on the subject. When you're done, call Cedar Point's marketing office and ask them if they're OK with you using their trademarks.
Profit has zero to do with it. Think about it. Nobody made a dime by trading music on Napster, yet the courts very plainly indicated that such trading was copyright infringement.
Trademarks identify a brand, and may not be used by other entities. Failure to enforce your trademark rights is grounds for losing it all together, so again, ask if they'd be OK with it. I already know what the answer is.
Leave the law to people who have expertise in the intellectual property field.
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Want to talk trademark law? Fine.
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/tac/tmlaw2.html#_Toc25751127
Here is the trademark law. That link takes you directly to the passage we need. Trademark law works even better for digitalmind.
"use in commerce any reproduction, counterfeit, copy, or colorable imitation of a registered mark in connection with the sale"
"to be used in commerce upon or in connection with the sale, offering for sale, distribution, or advertising of goods or services"
As you can see, conditions of a violation are when the "copied" works are involved in commerce. Trademark law makes it even MORE LEGAL to print shirts with the dragster logo for his trip.
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