[webproducers] Re: What do you think?

I worked for a company that did the same thing with Ford! Only it wasn't just 
the logo, they put work they'd pitched on their site as if the client had paid 
for it! Guess they fell through the cracks.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ari Feldman 
  To: webproducers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 12:37 PM
  Subject: [webproducers] Re: What do you think?



  not so amazing about Ford. they're a HUGE company with an army
  of in-house and out-of-house lawyers.

  financial institutions are also guilty of this.

  most companies do not have in-house counsel, let along large
  numbers of lawyers at their disposal so risking a cease and
  desist is worth the risk to some.


  --- Stuart Hunt <stuarth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  > Also, with such a generic name (HSN) the company probably has
  > perceived
  > themselves to need to take a strong tack on protecting the use
  > of their
  > trade name and trademark.  Therefore they have probably
  > retained a legal
  > entity to take care of this for them and they're just doing
  > their job.
  > 
  > Theoretically, if a company doesn't protect it's
  > trademark/name it might
  > possibly lose use of that name (from a legal standpoint, I've
  > heard from
  > lawyers).
  > 
  > I worked for an upstart website once who had contacts with
  > Ford (but no real
  > agreements) and this website had me post a Ford logo on their
  > site, and Ford
  > faxed them with a cease and desist letter the next day --
  > quite amazing.
  > 
  > --Stuart Hunt
  > 
  > On 8/11/03 12:10 PM, "Michael Randazzo"
  > <randazzm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  > 
  > > Hi everybody,
  > > What does everybody think about this guy's dilema regarding
  > his client
  > > list?
  > > For those of you that have small businesses or work
  > independently how do
  > > you
  > > handle this?
  > > http://www.angrycoder.com/blog/entries/20030507.html
  > > Here's an excerpt:
  > > 
  > > *"I was greeted by a cease and desist letter. Apparently,
  > HSN is not
  > > very pleased that I listed them on the client list page of
  > the web site
  > > for my consulting company, ASPSOFT, Inc. As I read the
  > letter, I got
  > > extremely pissed."
  > > 
  > >
  >
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