Pre Migration Most liked posts in thread: 2011 M/A Calendar - V1.0 is now dead

It's starting to sound like maybe it's a good thing Zazzle didn't work out?

 

Nice try Nate! No good deed will go unpunished. How out rageous and arogant of BMW. :mad5: Maybe each calendar should include 12 little black dots so that people cover up the MINI logo on each monthly photo

 

That would be some calendar if all the MINI's were pixilated.

 

I don't like to look at pictures with pasties

 

Nathan,
Did you check with the Tar Heel MINI's? They have their calendar now and it's only 12 bucks!

 

Nathan check with Ohbuga, he might be able to just plug in M/A cars in the present Calender design on the THMMC and change the name....just a thought.

PS: Cannot see how BMW would have any legal recourse to someone reproducing pictures of members personal cars on a Calender, especially with the consent of the owners of those cars and pictures.. Don't use the MINI logo anywhere except for where it might show on the cars in the photographs. It is not a "MINI" Calender, it is a Motoring Alliance Calender.

 

Maybe you could reverse the photos like in our banner and then it would be a bunch of INIMs :lol:

 

Quote:
...only MINI can use MINI images for commercial purposes since they own the trademark design.


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9K4JPtqjGk&feature=related]YouTube - LIFAN 320 El auto perfecto[/ame]

 

Darn MM, had to tell the difference at a glance.

Jim

 

Ha.....
Yeah,I wonder if we did a Lifan 320 calendar, if it would pass the MINI test.

PERFECTO

 

Nathan, it seems like Zazzle won't budge, neither will MINI. For future reading, this is helpful .. particularly this part:

"Unlike copyright law, trademark law as such does not restrict the use of a trademark in a photograph. What trademark law does forbid is using a trademark in a way that can cause confusion regarding the affiliation of the trademark owner to the image. If consumers are likely to mistakenly believe that a photograph was sponsored by the trademark owner, then there may be trademark infringement."

Basically, if someone saw your calendar, and could be confused as to whether or not it's endorsed by MINI, then you'd have an issue.

 

Well........
If you really wanted a MINI calendar, contact some of those chaps at Minitorque, get it printed in England, where things like this can get done, and shipped back to the US.

 

If the blokes across the pond print them we will know when to celebrate Hogmanay, Shrove Tuesday, Emmiline Pankhurst Day and Guy Fawkes Night

 

Seems to me the key words here are "for profit", what if the calendar is "free", with a proper donation to the site?

I guess that means Nate would have to stand the costs till they were all bought, but if contributions came up front that would cover the costs, would that work?

 

About the only way that would work is if all proceeds from the sell of the Calender were donated to a charity (non profit organization ), but that would leave Nathan fronting all the money, going through the trouble of putting it together and getting it printed, then collect the money and ship all the calenders, and then donating the profit when all is said and done. Then he still could be at the mercy of Mini's attorneys ....... whew, a lot to do for nothing....

 

Yeah......
I seem to remember a local story having to do with beer sales at an event. You bought a ticket for something like $5.00 and if the ticket was turned in they gave you a free beer. :beer