[TheForge] T-shirt

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Hi Rick:
I agree that you are probably on legally defensible ground...but it was 
still somebody elses  idea....It would be a lot like copying satire 
that  spoofs  other material.
In an arena of near infinate numbers of possible ideas, why not come up 
with your own?
If i'm afraid that you'll  copy any good idea of mine you see, then i'll 
go out of my way to make sure you don't see it or my techniques.
It was that fear that almost led to the demise of the traditions of our art.
I think that as artist-blacksmiths, we need to be real protective of  
original work...
if only so we can be morally indignant when the Chinese rip us all off.
Yeah, OK...I'm over reacting...sniff..............Pete F

Rick at Rafter Lazy C wrote:

>If it was anything patentable or in any way proprietary, no I would NOT do
>that.  HOWEVER, since this is already a mock of someone else's logo I see no
>problem with making one myself that is similar.
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>Engineering is about 98 percent using ideas that already exist.  The rest is
>coming up with new ideas.  I see this as fitting in with the 98.
>
> Rick Crawford at Rafter Lazy C
>Home of Smoky Forge and Lem the Wonder Mule
>email = rick at rafterlazyc.com
>home page = http://www.rafterlazyc.com
>forge page = http://www.smokyforge.com
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
>To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 10:35 PM
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] T-shirt
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>>Oh come on, you don't really want to rip off somebody's idea/design do
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>you?
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>> Most of us would be pissed if somebody did it to us.
>>Pete F
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>>Rick at Rafter Lazy C wrote:
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>>>Hello Norm -
>>>
>>>   If you can't find who made those, I have some friends who have a
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>custom
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>>>T-shirt business.  Just let me know and I will do up a logo such as you
>>>described and they can do as many as you want.
>>>
>>>Rick Crawford at Rafter Lazy C
>>>Home of Smoky Forge and Lem the Wonder Mule
>>>email = rick at rafterlazyc.com
>>>home page = http://www.rafterlazyc.com
>>>forge page = http://www.smokyforge.com
>>>
>>>
>>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>>From: <larbooks at impulse.net>
>>>To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>>>Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 12:09 PM
>>>Subject: [TheForge] T-shirt
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>>>>At the recent ABANA conference someone was selling t-shirts that
>>>>looked like the Ford automobile logo. It was a blue ellipitical
>>>>shaped logo with the word Forged printed in the logo with the "F"
>>>>looking like the script F that Ford uses.
>>>>
>>>>If anyone knows who the person was selling the shirts, I'd
>>>>appreciate knowing how to get hold of them.  Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>Norm Larson
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