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Celery Man

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  1. Not a lawyer, I don’t understand the reference, are you trying to tell me that brands aren’t people, with rights?
  2. I mean, maybe fairness isn’t the goal or what matters legally, but with someone inventing insulin you have fairness vs good. How much do they need to profit for inventing insulin, which is fair, before the good of allowing people to benefit should outweigh the fairness of them profiting on their invention. With something completely ephemeral like a brand, there is literally no good - it’s only fairness.
  3. IMO if someone wants to make money selling Trump branded garbage to his legion of rubes I think he should probably be able to wet his beak. For sure Hello Kitty would have some protection as artwork, but where is the line between that and the iconic longhorn logo? What about the Eddie Bauer trucks? I think in 2024 people assume a brand belongs to an entity and it’s use is protected and therefore blessed by the entity when it appears (temu aside).
  4. If I saw a car with Patagonia branding on it I would absolutely assume that Patagonia approved. I for sure assume that the Eddie Bauer Fords of the late 90s were a collab. There are lots of cross brand collaborations, check out this guitar I just bought - Regardless of the intent of the law, it *feels* like you should be able to protect the use of a brand after you create it and make it commercially valuable.
  5. I think the brand thing is why this doesn’t make sense to me - a brand is a thing. It has value, it has to be created in order to have that value. If I create a brand and do whatever it was that made the brand valuable, other people shouldn’t be able to harvest that value. And especially in cases (most of them) where the brand has reputational value and misusing it could damage that value. Patagonia is synonymous with durability and quality and environmental consciousness - what if I just took their brand and applied it to some completely different business making plastic garbage? OK? I’m not confusing their customers or harming Patagonia’s business?
  6. So, in the example of the band that makes money on clothing as part of their core business - it seems like that is also part of the core business or at least a major part of the business of almost every sports team and organization. Can they protect their logo and branding in that use, and how would a university athletics department be different?
  7. brb opening a storefront selling Donald Trump branded foam mattresses
  8. What if we got bigger and started licensing out the clothes, and making more on performance royalties? what if I went out and started selling white t-shirts with the Ford logo on it, or.. Arnold&Porter or whatever?
  9. So, I played in a band for a lot of years. We wrote and recorded music, which was ostensibly our business along with live performances. We’d get $500-$1k/night in our two main cities but we could only really play there once a month or two. We’d spend say 12 grand recording an album and another 3 on manufacturing a thousand or two copies of the CDs which we’d sell for $12, and I’m not going to do the math but it doesn’t work out. We sold t shirts that cost us a couple bucks to make for $15-20 and that’s how we actually paid for everything. Is the idea because we weren’t in the clothing business, someone else could just make shirts with our logo and name and whatever on them and sell them and keep all the money? I get why we don’t want people to just call dibs on everything but if you… create the value of a brand I don’t get why someone should be able to just take that and take your business?
  10. At least when you were drinking you had an excuse.
  11. does the licensing business run on something different than the concept of the trademark? I guess intelllectual property? Is brand not that, and are the words and slogans and logos and etc associated with the brand not... that? I guess, if the idea that trademark is meant to identify SOURCE OF GOODS means that it doesn't protect the value of the brand of an institution being applied to clothes and sold, then wouldn't that have enormous ramifications outside of the realm peddling t shirts for pederasts?
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  13. to me that looks like a telecaster that a certain member of the paul butterfield blues band took a dremel to
  14. Yeah I'm confused by that as well - what does it mean to be "in the clothing business"? My assumption is that every Longhorn I see on a piece of clothing sold... not on temu or whatever resulted in some licensing money going back to the school. My assumption is that that is a big business, and the revenue for the school is not insignificant. How is UT or Penn State not in the clothing business?
  15. Jesus. That Mike Bloomfield had a keen eye for aesthetics when it came to his teles. Here's GE Smith with another one of them
  16. I feel like I could get brisket to draft a will for me pro burrito if it included clause about having a tamale lady and tray of allsups chimichangas at my funeral
  17. 96 DM, my first guitar. I took it to the guy because the binding was coming up a bit and the previously repaired crack on the top looked like it needed some attention ^^ from forever ago when it was my office guitar, every now and then I’d have to spend an afternoon in the workroom that was an otherwise empty floor
  18. wait did brisket die
  19. Hey hey I didn’t say that, my wife said that. I want the fancy zojishiwhatever rice machine. Oh yeah rereading that - needed a sarcasm tag. The creemi is needed but not a rice machine 🙄
  20. We have a Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer because my wife loves whatever gadget is the thing (we also have a ninja creami that I completely forgot about and an unused zojurishi bread maker I should use, but a rice maker is a waste of space so we don’t have that). I would use it almost all the time for oven stuff I can fit on a quarter sheet except my wife doesn’t like to keep anything on the counter except the toaster and coffee maker, so I don’t use it at all.
  21. lol my marine master 300 is a monocoque case and is good for a very consistent +20. I assume they at least regulate the grand seikos. i need to bust out my old king seiko chronometer. That one is nails and is the closest thing I have to that little squarish gold old school dad watch.
  22. I haven’t bought a watch or worn anything other than my speedy for more than a couple of days at a time for years but I kinda want to buy this. Which would kick off a chain of events leading up to the purchase of a vintage omega that I definitely don’t need
  23. We live in Wake Forest near Raleigh, where there is a Chuys. There are some actually pretty good taco places out here (and a torchys not far from where i live) but I have not found a decent plate of enchiladas outside of my house. We got Chuys takeout the other night, it was fine, the enchiladas were not great but they never have been. What was great was the fucking chips. I don't know if I also just haven't had good restaurant chips in a million years but I can't stop eating them.
  24. lol I haven’t paid attention to kicker at all, I didn’t even think about just dropping him but yeah he has not been anything special I had a streak of a couple losses but I’m back in the w column, 8-3 in 5th with 1st and 2nd place at 9-2.
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