Question for Lawyer people and other smart human beings
- Thread starter UGLI baby
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Dam. I was wondering who's copying my racket.
"as usual" might be a truer "fix". . . .
you guys are cracking me up.
you really don't have a clue how it works. Copyright issues have become the bread and butter income for a lot of media types already. They do a logo, hire twenty sharpie lawyers and a hundred paralegals who patrol the internet and highways looking for "actionable cases". The file suit, and drum up the case to be a multimillion issue, hoping the turkeys will settle for whatever they actually have.
Jesse Jackson, you have good students on your extortion racket.
The only way you won't pay with the shirt off your back, and everything your mother has, is if you can afford forty lawyers, and sue them good enough to make it stick. Or scare them enough they just leave you alone.
Yep, I know several people that FOR A LIVING find actionable cases (stupid, but actionable) against others that have something to lose, but not enough to defend themselves. They'd rather give up what they've got than fight. I want to punch every one of these ******* in the testes.
UGLI baby
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Ok then.
Well how do people get away with selling shirts like the ones I posted in this thread, Mr babe?
It's quite simple to set up companies in states that do not disclose the owners (have registered agents, only, on file). Prepare your product, prepare for a quick-hit/fast roll-out, and go like hell until the cease and desist order comes, then stop. Take as much cash as possible, clear out bank accounts daily (bank accounts are another tricky matter, as they 'follow the money'), and when the order comes, stop.
Then, if you find an enterprise is worth continuing to operate, you can set up foreign corporations, doing most of the business via the internet .. while still getting the word out on the streets (games, etc).
Cocaine is illegal, but people still deal it .. if you want to beat copyright, you can .. but there's a risk .. just have to be smarter (or smaller) than those pursuing you.
Wait, how'd I get trolled? (not saying I didn't)
Babe said people will sue and I simply agreed that many people/companies sue on the basis that they'll win by default .. maybe I should have read everything better..
My first wife's mother ran a poker house in Manila for a wealthy clientele. She could read the cards in my hands by looking in my eyeballs, and my facial expressions. I was a good student. And I'm not "rambling".
My present wife is probably just as good at cards. We played canasta with her sister and her kids on the 4th, and those kids were studying my eyeglasses. My nephew assumed the duties of teaching one of my daughters, and exploited his "extra" knowledge to wipe us all out.
I don't go to the poker games Gameface runs because I'm just a babe in the woods at the card table, and my wife won't invest in my adventures. But take the cards out of it, and Franklin has a point.
But Franklin, my scenario is based on some unfortunate experiences in the legal casinos of Vegas, the official courts. I know there are sharpie lawyers out there looking at all the angles. In this case, my opinion is no simple troll frolic.
And while there are perhaps a lot of very small T-shirt knockoff artists around who don't get hauled into court for their deeds, it is also true that there are enough sharpie lawyers around I do consider them a serious danger. Haven't we heard of some kids who downloaded some songs in pirate style who have paid a stiff price for it.
Logos are trademarks. Trademark law is different from copyright law.
This sounds good to me. I'm in!
UGLI baby
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Great.
I should note, I'm willing to sell a chunk of the coke business to investors but NOT part of the t-shirt business. That is my baby.
I'd be willing to give you a 12% stake in the coke biz for 16 rep points.