anyone?

It's no more thanks to the fine folks over at VW

Whaaa??

oh wow

laaaame

thanks, shimala

Screw VW.

hoooooly wowzers

I know where they can shove it...

hm well that didn't work.

i dont remember that one can anyone post a pic just to see what it looks like

that is kinda funny that VW killed it... I see shirts w/ VWs all the time (Buses, Bugs)...man



oh well...

Urg, I am sick of these lawsuits. This one seems especially bizarre since surely it's not a crime to portray a VW?

Here, you can kind of see the pic on the profile, under "Check me out, I'm a winner."

whats odd to me was that it wasnt even putting teh VW in a bad light

Um, yeah, about that profile :-P

You'd think VW would encourage it, since they're sort of gearing the car toward a younger market. Wouldn't be surprised if they now put out their own shirt after "coming up" with the idea...

in fact i have several shirts with VW logos and or cars on them... I guess they hadn't come to VWs attention yet? or were printed in such small numbers as to be under the radar



a shirt w/ a old bug w/ a terrified kid in it looking over and seeing a new bug w/ a alien driving it.



a shirt with a split screen bus



a work shirt w/ a VW patch



a tshirt w/ a tribal art desgin w/ VW logo in center (don't ask why I bought this one.. i can't remember?)



I use to own a number of VWs and was/am I guess a fan.



of the old air cooled ones that is... although i did have a Jetta and a GTI at one point



mostly bugs and buses however.

yeah that is ridiculous, the car didn't even say volkswagon on it ...

this was almost my first threadless shirt

I didn't know that the visual representation of that car was copyright protected.



Bizarre.

I thought VW were a little bit better than that.



at least I don't own a VW or do I ever plan on buying one

if VW have a problem with that, can you imagine the potential problems countless designs could potentially cause? think about geneé's mario pipe sub for instance

The thing is, if it went to court Threadless would probably win because it's a parody.



But it'd be more trouble than it's worth, I guess.

However, this has kind of soured me on VW.



And here I thought they were supposed to be the car of the people...

Just about every design submited for the Little Miss Sunshine Loves comp would have been axed.

anyone who is interested here is what VW has to say on trademark enforcement





http://vwtrademarks.com/vw.aspx?file=vwpolicy.htm

It's a shame it's almost as if it never existed, the original sub is gone too. Good to note for anyone's future beatle/combi designs, beware of VW, they obviously have people everywhere.

it isn't just VW btw Glennz alot of companies have gotten pretty aggro on IP type issues lately

OT: Holly, I love your haircut! Tres cute!

thanks, groovymarlin! are you talking about the pixie cut or the bob? i'm kinda growing it out now because i've had it in a pixie for over a year..

So "Dark Side of the Garden" is allowed, which is just as blatant with its "homage" as flour power was to its source material, but somehow this shirt has escaped heir direktor George Lucas's watchful and his storm trooper army of lawyers radar is crazy.

well, hi there...

So, what trademarks and symbols are included in Volkswagens stable of trademarks? Among others, Volkswagen claims trademark rights in the name Volkswagen; in the initials VW; in its distinctive logo; in the names and model numbers of Volkswagen automobiles; in its advertising slogans; in the design of the classic Beetle; and in the design of the New Beetle.

Hey I have a quick favor...



I just bought "puppet ballet" from a friend and I wanted to send in a picture wearing it to threadless. But you need an order number to do that...since I saw you owned this shirt and had written a blog, I was wondering if you could give me your order number so I could submit the tee to threadless! Thanks!

email me back at alexandra04@mac.com

Ssssh... Shimala was just in here.



Anyway, since the blog was bumped up I thought I'd mention that I always assumed the van in Vincent's Van Go was a VW, but this blog made me look a little closer and I realise it's not. Looks like there's actually an engine under that hood. There was a German film called "23" which basically suggested VW was a front for the illuminati (23 is their secret number, 2 + 3 =5, V is 5 in Roman numerals, W is the 23rd letter of the alphabet) so don't know why they let that through. Also, they were founded by Nazis.

I hate to say it "dancerchicao404" but no one is going to give you their order #. Order numbers can only be used once anyways.

yeah i don't have an order number anyways because i got that shirt from one of my friends... is the order number necessary to submit a picture anyways? i've never needed one to submit a picture...

Yeah you have to have it to send in pics. Why is it such a big deal to give out order numbers? I have asked a few people and received the same weird responses. Its not like it is personal information. I would give anyone an order number if they wanted to submit a pic of themselves wearing a tee...



thanks anyway!

if you have an account isn't that all you need? just under 'my account' click on 'submit a photo'. almost positive you don't need an order number...

Back on topic, you can get a better view of the deleted design here:



Flower Power

i'm soooo glad i got it when i did ;)