If you read my posts youll see basically what has been said between me and this guy,which is basically "Im gonna sue you" and"I own the rights so what" time and again. Who in their right mind is gonna start paying a hefty fee to use these rights after theyve used them so long for "free"???
So, becuase you unawfully used it for soooo long, you now have the right??? Igree, I can't stand litigius people, but it sounds like you really know how to talk to people, and i'm sure now, that you did not offer to pay for rights to a logo YOU say he owns.
The GN logos havent been used in almost 16 years,14 for the power 6!!!
Wrong...GM still sells the emblems, or at least they did a couple of months ago. If its ok to use them, why aren't you?? aybe because you are still trying to find an excuse for illegally using them.
If I was Kirban,Jax,Poston,or any other vendor id wouldnt sell YOU a product for a million dollars,seeing as youve basically called them all "theives", including Jason and the administrators of tb(which remember they give us this site for FREE!!).
And you can add me to th list. I made some t-shirts using the logo and gave them to friends. I think all the above vendors, if they never had a license realize that they/we all got a free ride, what you can't realize is that the ride is over (according to you). This is detemined by US Patent and copyright laws, not by me. That is what makes the rights so expensive, that is what gives them their value. If not, the rights wouldn't be worth .02. Who sould be out that money? GM? the guy (according to you) who bought the rights,or the people who are using it illegally???
Also I would personally pay a "vendor fee" to keep this guy off the board as a supporting vendor. With friends like him in the tr community,who needs enemys. Maybe when you have to pay 500$ to 700$ for emblems,you can talk to me then.
If this guy was gouging prices would agree, but it sounds to me like your mad because you can't use the logo for free. Do you not understand that yes, we all agree that it sucks that people cannot use the logo for free anymore, legally you never were supposed to, but we all did. Yes, we were all "theives" since you want to put it that way,but we new what we were doing. GM shut down Ebay auctions, and alot of vendors products. Yes it sucked, but you are mad at the guy who went it did it legally (again all according to you), went and invested big $$ to do it right, and is doing nohing different than what GM did when they shut a bunch of things down, and that is why think you are wrong. You have said nothing in this thread to tell me why you or anyoe should be able to use it for free. This site is free for you and me, but it is not supposed to be free for vendors selling their merchandise. I bought merchandise from tb.com store to help support this site, Ihave volunteered my time in posts to help the board, and i've been on this board for over 4 years,way before the crash. I just wish a group of people had gotten together and each put up $1k to buy the rights, so the a bunch of people could have owned the rights, but to bitch, call a guy names, say he's going to rip everyone off on emblems because you cannot use the logo, is wrong.