[Leica] Ford Logo problems

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Raimo K asked:
Subject: Re: [Leica] Ford Logo problems

>>How can a company claim to have ownership of people?s pictures, no matter
what the subject is?<<

Hi Raimo,

It isn?t the pictures at all. It?s the use of the corporate logo and any
Leica/Ford wording.

I?d bet if their legal people wanted to get down right mean and ugly they
?might be able? to stop us from using the title of the list as.. ?Leica
Users Group? maybe?

Brian any thought on this?

But some companies when they get their legal beagles digging for what they
consider ?bad use? in their eyes they go completely crazy.

Much like the IOC Olympic word use.

We have or had a situation in Vancouver, a restaurant that was in business
for years and years and called the ?Olympic Restaurant.? No harm to anybody,
good food and service always the same family ownership.

Vancouver wins the Winter Olympic bid to hold the games and one of the first
things that happened was
 ?the rotten Vancouver Organizing Committee had
their legal beagles tell the restaurant owner to stop using the name
?Olympic? he?d used for near a half century. Or he would be fined and or
whatever dirty dealing they could pull out of their legal books to crucify
some simple little guy like that.

Big Corporations have lots of money to pay their lawyers to act stupid
without common sense. So the idiocy we see here with Ford and potential for
it to happen is quite possible. 

ted