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Company lawyers can be really cranky and jump on the smallest person or thing. A restaurant called "De Nero's" was shut down in Vancouver for trading on a famous name. Though how you believe you have the sole rights to a name is unbelievable. Needless to say I don't pay to watch a De Nero movie in personal protest.
So there is no guarantee that Alfa would protest, but I think it's in the spirit that names and trademarks are used.
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Volkswagen recently sued Rocky Mountain Motorsports for mentioning VW. My enthusiast website for my BMW got shut down by BMW (BMW2002.net). Even the best intentions can still be copyright infringement.
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Company lawyers can be really cranky and jump on the smallest person or thing. A restaurant called "De Nero's" was shut down in Vancouver for trading on a famous name. Though how you believe you have the sole rights to a name is unbelievable. Needless to say I don't pay to watch a De Nero movie in personal protest.
So there is no guarantee that Alfa would protest, but I think it's in the spirit that names and trademarks are used.
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In the movie biz the first thing most departments do is a legal search and clearance for any name from scripts, personal names or for a business establishment. One has no idea how many hoops we jumped thru just to name a restaurant and jazz club such as "The Blue Note" a natural,right? But because there was one already in Japan we could not use it. So involved it was it took up to 4 years and hundreds of iterations to name dozens of establishments in the theme park.
Trump tried to get "Your'e Fired" copyrighted. But DeNiro does own a restaurant "Tribeca" in the tribeca area of NYC. I can see his point. Was the family name of the owner's "De Nero" which would be french derivation (to me) a family name or not? It makes a difference. The obvious play on words is one thing but the misappropriation of the generic is shameful.There are continuing lawsuits over the "Original Ray's Pizza" in NY,there are dozens of them.
This society is getting crazier by the year,more and more litigious and greedy.
Missing some good movies though.
Shakespeare had it right. Sorry to any of you Alfisti lawyers.
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Recreational litigation..how quaint !
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Volkswagen recently sued Rocky Mountain Motorsports for mentioning VW. My enthusiast website for my BMW got shut down by BMW (BMW2002.net).
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You've got to remember...the Germans can be, how can I put this without being too insulting to our Tutonic bretheren, a little anal about these things...Thats why I drive pasta & not bratwurst !! 
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In minimal defense of the German marques, I think it would be quite unwise to use any Italian fashion house logo and not expect a problem! Also would add that a little corporate greed may be involved, however I believe the big issue is having no input on how a product is represented. A weak excuse in many examples, I agree. Could be also someone practicing a little job protection / security in the corporate cubicle.......
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A Swedish BNW (  ) site had to change name, they used to be called bmwpower.nu (like it reads on the BMW F1 cam covers) now they're called autopower.nu.
The Swedish Alfa club has the URL alfaromeo.org 
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my design idea
I thought this would be cool to have on the front or back of a tshirt or on a mug or anything really......of course using both the alfa logo and alfa lettering i'm sure someone would get mad 
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I managed to get alot of people mad this week...
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I will take a shirt too.
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We still have a lot of these shirts in stock. Buy some for the National Convention and Monterey weekend. It will be nice to see people wearing these and it'd be easy to spot you all and say hi at the events.
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 So this post is over 6mo old now. Have there been any new Alfabb shirts made up? If so where can they be purchased? I saw a pic of a mans F.I L. from Japan wearing a cool shirt. I want to get my hands on at least one of these. Help? Anyone?
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AlfaBB.com t-shirts still around?
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Well Im happy to say that after the looong wait we now have AlfaBB.com tees available.
http://www.alfabb.com/bb/tees.htm
The online shopping cart is only for domestic orders since there is no way to do a seperate shipping table for international orders. International orders need to be processed manually following the info on tee page.
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I wonder why no answer here. Did you try PM'ing Simon or Anthony? That should get a quick response. I doubt they have the time or inclination to read every thread. Best wishes. I'm looking to get an updated clean shirt myself.
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I wonder why no answer here. Did you try PM'ing Simon or Anthony? That should get a quick response. I doubt they have the time or inclination to read every thread. Best wishes. I'm looking to get an updated clean shirt myself.
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