Tom,
IMHO, Olympus has no basis or standing (legalese) to sue you. Moreover, on what
basis could they assert damages? It seems to me that your site helps Olympus.
Honestly, I do not think you can get in any trouble over zuikoholic.com and
think it to be the least of your worries, especially now.
Tom Scales wrote:
> I suppose I could get in trouble with my zuikoholic.com, but my huge risk is
> $70 (i.e. the Internic fee). I'd be pretty surprised if Olympus comes after
> me, particularly since my site is pretty innocuous. I know John uses
> www.zuiko.com, but I don't know if that is with permission or not.
>
> The net is such a 'lawless' place and so international, that proving true
> damages would be tough. Even if Hans sold a shirt to all of us, I think his
> gross profit would be in the 10's of dollars <grin> and since all he has is
> really an image, hmmm.
>
> It's not like we registered pepsi.com
>
> Tom
>
> > >If I'm not mistaken Olympus has been made aware of the eSIF and other
> > Oly
> > >sites (unofficial) before, and they said nothing of it. B'sides, the
> > >tshirt logo does have the copyright or TM symbol on there.
> > >
> >
> > Merely including the symbols on the images does not mean that
> > permission has been granted for commercial use. Most likely, Oly is
> > glad for the attention, doesn't care about the TM, or both. On the
> > other hand, Oly may be waiting for Hans to get rich enough off of his
> > web site to make it worth thier time to sue him, which is commonly
> > done. Then again, I know of stories relating to some companies, most
> > notably Porsche, that continue to be extremely vigilant and
> > uncompromising in protecting thier marks. Porsche in particular has a
> > history of going after even the littlest business if Porsche felt even
> > slightly infringed.
> >
> > Both www.olympus.org and www.olympus.net appear to be taken, but
> > www.zuiko.org and www.zuiko.net appear to be still available.
> >
> > Be seeing you.
> >
> >
> > Dirk Wright
>
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