|  | 
12-05-2002, 02:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Orange County, CA. | | | Logo "spoofs"
Sign in to disble this ad
I'm asking on behalf of a friends band who I kinda sorta manage (meaning I find them some gigs here and there). They have several logos, all are spoofs of stuff like the Philidelphia Creme Cheese Logo and the Yorkville Pepperment Pattie, ect.
Would they get into any trouble for this?
Here's an example: 
__________________
"Yeah well, if we could all get what we want, I'd be eating dinner out of Hilary Duff's skull right now."
|
12-05-2002, 06:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Brugge, Belgium | | Hmmm, I think it would depend if the logo is copywrited or not ...
Many of the famous logo's are registered trademarks, so be carefull, you live in a country where sueing each other is a national pass-time ... 
__________________
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. (George Orwell) |
12-05-2002, 06:28 AM
| | | thats sweet. I agree with the above post. You are in the land of the free (to sue anyone for anything).
People spoof crap all the time over here, theres a band called claims direct with exactly the same logo as the insurance company of the same name...no big deal.
I did this for a friends album cover. Dont know if it counts as a spoof tho. They didnt want it anyway  ill have it for my band when i get one together.
Last edited by punkfunkfreak : 12-05-2002 at 06:31 AM.
|
12-05-2002, 04:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Saratoga county,New York,U.S.A | | I would'nt worry too much about it,my bands logo is a rip-off of the Warner Bros. sheild except ours has "BB"(Bruise Bros.) in it instead of WB...if we ever get sued or told to change it we'll just alter it a little.(maybe we'll get some free publicity  even if it is bad ).but on another note we also use a bunch of other logos to put on t- shirts and other merch. logos like Reeces pb cup logo.we also had one made by a local artist to look like the charlie's angels sillouette logo and we also use the Notre Dame "fightin Irishmen" but we put a ballpeen hammer in one of his hands...just to alter it a little bit..To answer your question... I would'nt loose any sleep over it....
__________________
WHAT?
|
12-06-2002, 08:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Mpls, MN | | | The odds for litigation go up depending on two factors.
1. How much money you're making: If your band is making chump change no big company is going to waste their money and legal firepower on you. It isn't worth it to them. They'd lose more in court time than they could possibly gain back from a lawsuit.
2. Whether or not your spoof casts their product in a damaging light and how many people you can reach:
If you've got the pilsbury doughboy with a mohawk, they could turn a blind eye. If you've got the pilsbury doughboy bending a goat over a fence....you may get a call.
I've parodied 3 Kiss album covers for band posters (And we know how much THAT guy like to turn a buck or two) and Mean Gene has yet to give me a call. Stay under the radar and you'll be fine.
__________________
" Damn, for having all them strings,
you get less work done than most
guys do with only four."
Something I said to some hotshot with
an attitude who had no business
playing a 7 string bass.
|
12-06-2002, 08:45 AM
| | | | "If you've got the pilsbury doughboy with a mohawk, they could turn a blind eye. If you've got the pilsbury doughboy bending a goat over a fence....you may get a call. "
Classic. |
12-06-2002, 10:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Atlanta, Ga | | Oh i did it too and a bar wouldnt post it in the window because "alcohol" ads werent allowed in that state....i figured they wont go for you if you can get the logos off the russian websites for free... 
Tommy |
12-06-2002, 06:16 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Northampton Mass | | | A good friend of mine who became a artist/cartoonist just finnished a long battle with kraft because he used KING VELVEEDA as his signature. He lost
AJ
Last edited by Andrew Jones : 12-06-2002 at 06:24 PM.
|
12-09-2002, 12:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Atlanta, GA | | | Also, fyi - I just finished a Master's degree and one of my areas of study was Intellectual Property Law - so ask away, BUT if I could offer one piece of advice to anyone interested in spoofing it is this:
DON'T EVER SPOOF ANYTHING DISNEY. They'll go after you every time (think of all the schools/daycares they sued - and WON!) |
12-13-2002, 01:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada | | | Can the owner of the original logo ask for anything more than a cease-and-desist order?
As I understand it, the court will only compensate for ACTUAL losses as opposed to economic losses.
Also, they can't sue you for money because they cannot attribute the percentage of earnings generated by the logo spoof, correct?
So you could use it until you get caught and they ask you to stop. |
12-14-2002, 07:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Atlanta/Loganville | | | In most cases of parody, like the stuff National Lampoon used to put out, the subject doesn't have much to lean on because the work stands as an act of free speech and is protected. But a parody of a logo for the purpose of promoting another interest definitely - especially for profit - falls in the infringement category if the plaintiff wanted to pursue it. Sleazy had it right in that some infringements are so far outside of the scope of focus for the product that the company doesn't hear about it or declines to pursue litigation. But show their work in a bad way and you bet they'll get in touch with you. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | |
