Admin Announcement Adidas Logo - Do not use.

[E92_]

Bit of a dick move by them.

Meh. Shit logo, shit template.

 

[Groupie_]

Frickin morons.

Not buying anymore Adidas products.

 

[Hand]

I plan to buy quite alot of Hawthorn's Crapidas apparel next year, and cover the logo on everything.

By doing this, I hope to come across a lot of Crapidas representatives, and smile as they frown at my modded apparel.

#offtherails

 

[cannavo]

half assed paint job

 

[Mr Eagle]

Lots of money has been spent on their apparel in the past from posters on this board. Hardcore collectors. They've lost a few buyers already if posters stick to their guns. So, let's say the old business adage works, and those people tell 10 of their friends (who also likely buy apparel), and those 10 tell 10 of their friends, and those 10 tell 10. Assuming them all to be prospective buyers of their product, that's 1000 potential sales lost at $100/jumper (give or take), $100,000 (retail) potentially lost, just that quick from just one upset former buyer. Now, if everyone who says they are boycotting actually do so when the new stuff arrives, multiply it by 3 or 4 or 5 people, possibly more, telling 10 friends at the start (which is quite possible they're already doing, since they are telling us how they feel on this board).

Or, at the other extreme, everyone could just gripe about it here but eventually go ahead and buy the stuff anyway, maybe wait to find it on sale. Total potential loss of $500, tops. And frankly, I think my scenario is waaay more likely.

 

[Hand]

On the brown jumper, would you add yellow tape to cover up the ego stripes all the way down the back, too?

Yes.

 

[Andonis1997]

Is the board of representatives who decided this "all there"?

That is absolute crap!

Chief, what exactly happens if we DO use it? #offtherails #sorryhand4copyingu

 

[cammania]

Has three stripes. Can't use it.
It's like Cadbury suggesting they own the colour purple.

 

[Stromageddon]

Adolf "Adi" Dassler was a nazi. So was his brother, Rudolph. After some complications involving the war, Rudolph founded a company known as Puma, whereas Adi founded a company called Adidas.

So, you're essentially a neo-nazi if you wear puma apparel, adidas apparel and/or three stripes.

 

[Andonis1997]

Adolf "Adi" Dassler was a nazi. So was his brother, Rudolph. After some complications involving the war, Rudolph founded a company known as Puma, whereas Adi founded a company called Adidas.

So, you're essentially a neo-nazi if you wear puma apparel, adidas apparel and/or three stripes.

I love Carlton even more now!
Nike's Greek for "victory". That's all that we'll get of them.

 

[FXD_]

Nike's Greek for "victory". That's all that we'll get of them.

That, and child labour sweatshops.

 

[Silent Alarm]

Adolf "Adi" Dassler was a nazi. So was his brother, Rudolph. After some complications involving the war, Rudolph founded a company known as Puma, whereas Adi founded a company called Adidas.

So, you're essentially a neo-nazi if you wear puma apparel, adidas apparel and/or three stripes.

Just like 5-year old children are neo-Nazis for liking Disney...

 

[TheDoctor11]

Can we try not to turn this into a discussion about neo-Nazism?

 

[wizardwaffle]

It all probably started with the pictures of the new Hawthorn jumper appearing on here. Instead of just complaining about the jumpers appearing on here they added another complaint they had as well, people using their logo on jumper designs.

It would be good if they gave us exactly what they don't want to use. Is it their logo on concept designs, is it their logo on any design on here, or is it any of their jumpers at all. They are like an umpire that says don't go over the mark, but doesn't say where the mark is. If we don't known were the mark is, how do we known if we are doing wrong.

So what can we use and what we can't use. Does it include using the template for the jumpers. Can we post their jumper designs once they are released.

What we can and can't do should be found out. If one company starts doing it, what's to say the others won't follow.

One thing that was interesting when I was typing this is that an advertisment for the company appeared on the board.

 

[LadyPants]

What's the difference between this, and drawing a jumper with their logo in a scrapbook, showing it to friends, and getting feedback? Adidas you campaigners.

 

[Stromageddon]

Q for you, Chief. Do you think it best if we were to stop using all manufacturer's logos on mock designs?

 

[Omegaville]

Dick moves like this have been around since the 1990s.

Fox Studios brought in the lawyers to threaten web site creators who had fan pages for The Simpsons.

Metallica did the same to shut down fan sites. Other bands scoffed at this, many preferring the free publicity their fans gave them.

About 10 years ago, Marvel Comics saw a lot of people creating custom skins for The Sims based on their heroes... and duly sent the lawyers after them, claiming people were making a profit by allowing people to freely download skins of their favourite characters. (Interestingly, one key site owner at the time went to other comic companies for permission - DC gave him full permission and were appreciative of his efforts.)

I see Adidas rollin'... they hatin'... I seen it before.
If we see a "create your own jumper" app on their home page, then we can join the dots. Until then... it ain't hard to leave the logo off.

Not that I use the shitty Adidas templates anyway...

 

[Chief]

Is the board of representatives who decided this "all there"?

That is absolute crap!

Chief, what exactly happens if we DO use it? #offtherails #sorryhand4copyingu

They just ask me and I or one of the other mods removes it.

So why create work for your mods when it isn't our fault? Just don't use it.

 

[Chief]

It all probably started with the pictures of the new Hawthorn jumper appearing on here.

I would say you are 100% correct.

 

[Omegaville]

Q for you, Chief. Do you think it best if we were to stop using all manufacturer's logos on mock designs?

Good question, and given the circumstances, it makes sense... don't tempt fate. Unless the other companies give us permission

 

[wizardwaffle]

Good question, and given the circumstances, it makes sense... don't tempt fate. Unless the other companies give us permission

This is why I don't like putting companies logos on my jumper designs and the reason that I questioned others doing it before. The reasons why Mero doesn't put company logos on his pictures on www.footyjumpers.com are that "The jumpers cannot and will not have competition or sponsor logos on them, because that then makes them the Intellectual Property of the AFL, who own the rights to the team names, the logos and the jumpers (as they appear on the ground) By representing the jumpers without sponsor logos I am not showing AFL Licensed property, and therefore not breaching the contract they have with their website provider to only allow AFL IP on their site." The reason why I was given that company logos appear on pictures on this site is because of the turn over in threads on this board. However the threads are still there, they just aren't in the first page of threads.

If one company has come out and done this, and successfully stops their logo from appearing on designs on this site, others will follow. It is probably best to not have any company logos of designs on this site, especially those that are concept designs and are not actual designs.

A question I ask is whether or not we can still use the templates that are made to look like the designs of a company. The shape to things has become a copyrightable asset. On Coca-Cola products it states that the Coca-Cola Company is the owner of the trademarks Coca-Cola, Coke, Dynamic Ribbon Effect and the Contour Bottle Design. Wouldn't this mean that the company would have rights over their jumper designs and how they cut the fabric to create the jumper.

 

[Mero]

Well Coke have copyrighterd those elements, just like adidas have copyright on their logo. But they haven't copyrighted making jumpers in a particular cut or pattern.
So we are still OK to show their template, just not their logo.

I believe, like Chief, that this comes from releasing their 2013 designs, but that's not a copyright infiringement.
So they've complained about people using their logo on designs that are not theirs, which probably is copyright infringment.
(And hoped we wouldn't show any of their designs as part of that)

 

[wizardwaffle]

What about the discussion of the new Hawthorn designs. Is that allowed?

 

[wizardwaffle]

The designs that a company uses to create their jumpers would be under copyright. This would stop other companies from copying the design. With the company changing their jumper design every two years, they seem to know the life cycle of a design under copyright and when it introduce a new one to keep their design under copyright.

 

[LadyPants]

What's the first rule of Adidas Club?