al3
Gold Member
'Suppose if we had this many legal professionals back in WWII, "Deere John" letters would have been outlawed???
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Busted by Kubota Kops!
- Thread starter RonR
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chucko
Veteran Member
Maybe you could sale them "CaptainKubota.com" and retire
chucko
Veteran Member
waiit "CaptainKubota" is not "Kubota"!
Well, I've caved to the perceived legal pressure. www.captainkubota.com is no longer active, so if you wanted to go see what the fuss was about, don't bother as all it has is a note that says "Accused by Kubota, yada, yada, yada."
I do however, still own the domain name for awhile yet.........
Thanks for all the great communication--it was fun and entertaining, but alas, we should probably move on........
Henro, I've turned you in, so you'd better hide..........
Have fun,
Ron, formerly known as captaink_________a......
I do however, still own the domain name for awhile yet.........
Thanks for all the great communication--it was fun and entertaining, but alas, we should probably move on........
Henro, I've turned you in, so you'd better hide..........
Have fun,
Ron, formerly known as captaink_________a......
That is infuriating like that. I'm the type person that would find a loophole and aggresively exploit it just to pi$$ them off after doing me that way. I can get VERY spiteful in these types of scenarios.
Ideas:
1) Rename it into a humor site. Satire is protected by law against trademark and copyright infringement. KUBOTAJOKES.COM or CAPTAINKUBOTAJOKES.COM for example. Just change it ENOUGH that you can argue it is satire.
2) Make it YOU specific. MYKUBOTA.COM and put up pictures of your Kubota. Have a tee-shirt made and show a picture of yourself sitting on the tractor wearing the tee shirt on the main page. Tee shirt saying "Captain Kubota".
Ideas:
1) Rename it into a humor site. Satire is protected by law against trademark and copyright infringement. KUBOTAJOKES.COM or CAPTAINKUBOTAJOKES.COM for example. Just change it ENOUGH that you can argue it is satire.
2) Make it YOU specific. MYKUBOTA.COM and put up pictures of your Kubota. Have a tee-shirt made and show a picture of yourself sitting on the tractor wearing the tee shirt on the main page. Tee shirt saying "Captain Kubota".
Knute
Silver Member
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( And I'm sure no matter how good or bad the site is, that's not the issue--it's that you are doing something with their name and they don't like that. )</font>
Because they said since you aren't a dealer they won't cut you any slack my guess is that it's the fact that you aren't making them any money and that's where the problem is. Corporations are always watching the bottem line, sometimes at the expense of public relations.
Because they said since you aren't a dealer they won't cut you any slack my guess is that it's the fact that you aren't making them any money and that's where the problem is. Corporations are always watching the bottem line, sometimes at the expense of public relations.
chucko
Veteran Member
want us to all e-mail bota as owners of botas?
chucko
Veteran Member
when I was look for my bota I typed in kubota.com wrong and my whole desktop and IE shotcuts filled up with ****. I could not shut it down had to upplug my network cable. That was fun
Geeze guys, RELAX. I'm out maybe $100. I don't want to take the time and effort to end up having to get lawyered to fight something that they likely would win. Doing any spinoff of their name now that they have warned me would probably rachett up their legal department even more.
I will get a lot of mileage out of handing out my biz cards with that website crossed off and saying "Yeah, Kubota Corp made me take my site down........ Guess I was dipping into their profits too much.........."
I do appreciate all the fine compliments and "advice" I received here. This was fun.
Ron, formerly captaink_____a
I will get a lot of mileage out of handing out my biz cards with that website crossed off and saying "Yeah, Kubota Corp made me take my site down........ Guess I was dipping into their profits too much.........."
I do appreciate all the fine compliments and "advice" I received here. This was fun.
Ron, formerly captaink_____a