This is kinda creepy
OrangeDood
HEADLINE: Take your team to the grave
Major League Baseball and Eternal Image Inc. have reached an agreement
that allows caskets and urns to be decorated with the names and logos
of any of the 30 big-league teams.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
"This new line of team-specific funeral products opens a whole new
market for our company - a market that is just waiting for a way to
make team loyalty a 'final' statement of a great passion in their
lives," Clint Mytych, chief executive officer of Eternal Image, said
in a statement from the company.
The products will be available in 2007.
Dale Hicks
gocinc...@yahoo.com says...
Makes the Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request take on a whole new meaning.
--
Cranial Crusader dgh 1138 at bell south point net
Ken Oliver
"OrangeDood" <gocinc...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Such things have been available and very popular for college football teams
for several years.
deem...@aol.com
True, but that doesn't make it any less creepy....
Jim Bush
<gocinc...@yahoo.com>, but he couldn't help me either:
<insert Kansas City Royals joke here>
Jim B.
sfb
replant you in a Las Vegas Gamblers box if the team moves.
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brink
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Just last week, I was walking through a cemetery and saw a grave for a man
who had been buried about 10 years ago. He had a blue "LA" logo for the
Dodgers etched on his tombstone (this was in Iowa).
Obviously, since this grave was in place long before this new MLB licensing
agreement, this was a clear trademark violation. He is so busted.
brink
David M. Nieporent
"brink" <br...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>Just last week, I was walking through a cemetery and saw a grave for a man
>who had been buried about 10 years ago. He had a blue "LA" logo for the
>Dodgers etched on his tombstone (this was in Iowa).
>Obviously, since this grave was in place long before this new MLB licensing
>agreement, this was a clear trademark violation. He is so busted.
That depends if he paid someone to do it or not.
Wahoo
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logo on it.
brink
"Wahoo" <wa...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Quick, let's forward our findings to Selig.
I'm sure there's some sort of "finders fee" for this stuff. Half-price
tickets or something.
brink
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"David M. Nieporent" <niep...@alumni.princeton.edu> wrote in message
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Funeral homes don't work for free. ;-)
brink
sfb
who got paid to do it.
Bud Selig is writing a letter to each the estate telling them once is OK,,
but a second time and MLB will come down on them with the full force of the
law.
"David M. Nieporent" <niep...@alumni.princeton.edu> wrote in message
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bizook
one with the Red Sox (no bad 'Dead Sox' puns, please) logo on it. I
suggested we get it, but was outvoted. That was in '99, so I'm not sure
how long those kinds of things have been out there.
-andy
David M. Nieporent
"brink" <br...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>"David M. Nieporent" <niep...@alumni.princeton.edu> wrote in message
>>>Just last week, I was walking through a cemetery and saw a grave for a
>>>man who had been buried about 10 years ago. He had a blue "LA" logo
>>>for the Dodgers etched on his tombstone (this was in Iowa).
>>>Obviously, since this grave was in place long before this new MLB
>>>licensing agreement, this was a clear trademark violation. He is so
>>>busted.
>> That depends if he paid someone to do it or not.
>Funeral homes don't work for free. ;-)
Maybe his brother put it on the gravestone himself.
David M. Nieporent
>>>Just last week, I was walking through a cemetery and saw a grave for a man
>>>who had been buried about 10 years ago. He had a blue "LA" logo for the
>>>Dodgers etched on his tombstone (this was in Iowa).
>>>Obviously, since this grave was in place long before this new MLB
>>>licensing
>>>agreement, this was a clear trademark violation. He is so busted.
>> That depends if he paid someone to do it or not.
>A trademark violation is a trademark violation regardless of who did it or
>who got paid to do it.
Wrong. Trademark isn't like copyright. You can't copy a copyrighted work,
unless you fall into one of the fair use exceptions, no matter what. But
the use of a trademark can only be infringement if the use is "in commerce."
Now, there _could_ be copyright infringement; I don't know who owns the
copyright in the logo, but engraving it on a tombstone is clearly copying
it.
brink
> In article <4g5vcaF...@individual.net>,
> "brink" <br...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>"David M. Nieporent" <niep...@alumni.princeton.edu> wrote in message
>
>
>>Funeral homes don't work for free. ;-)
>
> Maybe his brother put it on the gravestone himself.
David,
In case you haven't noticed by now, my posts in this thread have all been
tongue-in-cheek.
You win.
brink
Steve
Or maybe he paid for a tombstone with a blue engraved square, and merely
asked to reduce the amount of engraving done. Less engraving, same
price - of course any engraver would do it!
--
Steve Alpert
MIT - B.S. (Eng.) '05, M.S. (Transp.) '06
http://web.mit.edu/smalpert/www/roads
Lance Freezeland
gave us:
I'm surprised they weren't available before this.
They have been selling crimson caskets with a big white A on them, an
officially licensed product of the NCAA and the University of Alabama,
for several years now.
--
Lance
"Where, oh where, are you tonight? How could you leave me here
all alone? I searched the world over and thought I found true
love. You met another and PFFT you were gone!"
-- noted American philosopher Archie Campbell
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