Frank design ....copyrighted ?

[Calderone]

CHECK THIS OUT

[One Voice]

Edward is an asshole.

[Calderone]

i cant believe it ..he copyrighted that design and ..what's left?

[Catfish]

They're corporate rock sellout fuckwads now. What's surprising?

[ZahZoo]

That's kinda old but it does take intelectual property to a new level... If I recall most of the VH related web site owners were contacted and provided terms for continued use of the copyrighted items... most opted to remove the stuff rather comply with the terms.

Branding and copyrighted trademarks etc... hold a lot of earning potential for the owner. I can see protecting things like the IBM logo, Chevy's bowtie, fender's headstock design, etc... to protect against fraudulent products and such but banning red/black/white striped images on a fan site for a rock band seems a bit over the top.

[knuckleboner]

it's not that bad, ZZ. basically, it was saying that the fan sites could use the designs so long as they acknowledged on their sites they were using copyrighted property and so long as they weren't using the site to profit from the sale of goods or services.

the license specifically states that the fan sites can't use the designs in an obscene matter, but the sites CAN be critical of van halen and still hold the license.

and of course, if the sites want to be obscene, but keep the trademarked designs from being obscene, they're ok.




personally, i think this wasn't too bad of ed. it was a way to make sure he preserved his right to the designs, while still letting the fan sites use them for free.

[John Ashcroft]

Yeah, this news is at least a couple years old. I remember Brett had to change his site a bit because of it. And yeah, lot's of uproar about it at the time. Ed's got the absolutely worst PR guy in the history of PR guys in my opinion. Oh, Eddie does his own PR you say? That figures...

[Seshmeister]

Brett didn't have to change it.

He was just gay about it.

Cheers!

[rustoffa]

[John Ashcroft]

Originally posted by Seshmeister
Brett didn't have to change it.

He was just gay about it.

Cheers!

Yeah, a little bit of overreaction over there for sure. But Eddie still needs to get a PR guy (or something!) I normally enjoy people speaking their mind, but every time Eddie does it he sounds like an ass (and no, I'm not getting a PR guy either... So don't bother with the autoreply. ). Anyway, he's ruining my Guitar-God image of him.

[Seshmeister]

The Van Halen sisters are not the brightest.

I think Brent's dad told him to back off but to me it makes no sense.

The worst case scenario would have been a court action that would have validated his site and got tons of publicity/hits which he could have retreated from when push came to shove.

I've told him as much but we have to agree to differ.

THen again we are talking about a site that is predominanly pro Van Hagar funded at great expense by a guy who prefers Roth music but bans anyone that agrees with him!!???

I think Brent either wants to run an official site to meet EVH or get's a kick from lording it over people.

Good luck to him, he seems very nice apart from that.

Cheers!

[Igosplut]

Agreed Sesh...

[Cato]

why doesn't anybody mention this thing?

http://www.davidleeroth.com

[Viking]

Man, that alimony to Val must be a bitch.........

[Cato]

I had the same designs on the back cover of my dad's porn mag as of October, 1969.