Urban Outfitters was selling tasteless Kent State sweatshirt... (1 Viewer)

[GroveDiesel]

The university has to approve any use of their name and logo before any item using them can be sold.

Someone at Kent State approved this.

I don't think that's their logo.

It's their name, or what is referred to as "brand". No one can use it without their approval.

Urban Outfitters didn't make the shirt. They took an old vintage Kent State sweatshirt, added the fake blood and bullet holes and tried to sell it.

It's part of their vintage collections where they go buy old crap that nobody wants at Goodwill, put a fancy description on it and some idiot pays $150 for a sweatshirt that UO got for $3.

 

[culdeus]

The university has to approve any use of their name and logo before any item using them can be sold.

Someone at Kent State approved this.

I don't think that's their logo.

It's their name, or what is referred to as "brand". No one can use it without their approval.

Are you sure this isn't covered under fair use? It would seem to be skirting that line to me.

 

[Politician Spock]

The university has to approve any use of their name and logo before any item using them can be sold.

Someone at Kent State approved this.

I don't think that's their logo.

It's their name, or what is referred to as "brand". No one can use it without their approval.

Are you sure this isn't covered under fair use? It would seem to be skirting that line to me.

Making a shirt and selling it isn't covered under fair use. Try doing that with "Florida State University" and see how far you get.

But if what GroveDiesel said is true, then this might be no different than buying a used shirt at Plato's Closet. If however they altered it enough to make it be considered something different than what it was originally sold as, then they would need the schools approval to alter it and sell it.

 

[Chemical X]

kent state sweatshirt challenge to follow? fill a bucket with bloodstained sweatshirts, pour over head, take video, donate to something that has nothing to do with any of this......rinse repeat.

 

[Das Boot]

Well I for one will never shop at UO again.

Likely that would have been the case regardless, but still.

 

[T Bell]

Well I for one will never shop at UO again.

Likely that would have been the case regardless, but still.

When was the last time you bought something from them?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Odds are whomever designed this (ridiculously priced) sweatshirt was born in 1990 and hasn't the foggiest idea what happened at Kent in 1970.

I showed the photo of the shirt to both of my sons...one born in 1992 the other born in 1994. They both knew right away why the shirt was offensive.

 

[Das Boot]

Well I for one will never shop at UO again.

Likely that would have been the case regardless, but still.

When was the last time you bought something from them?

Never.

But still.

 

[Christo]

The university has to approve any use of their name and logo before any item using them can be sold.

Someone at Kent State approved this.

I don't think that's their logo.

It's their name, or what is referred to as "brand". No one can use it without their approval.

Are you sure this isn't covered under fair use? It would seem to be skirting that line to me.

Making a shirt and selling it isn't covered under fair use. Try doing that with "Florida State University" and see how far you get.

But if what GroveDiesel said is true, then this might be no different than buying a used shirt at Plato's Closet. If however they altered it enough to make it be considered something different than what it was originally sold as, then they would need the schools approval to alter it and sell it.

Yeah, that's the exhaustion rule and it only protects someone to the extent they legally acquired the item and are simply redistributing it.

 

[T Bell]

Well I for one will never shop at UO again.

Likely that would have been the case regardless, but still.

When was the last time you bought something from them?

Never.

But still.

It's not exactly the Letter from Birmingham Jail.