Who cares, its just some stupid bird.
Liverpool FC allowed to trademarks the city's emblem
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Matt Damon
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Scouse wheel trim robbing tiprat.
davek
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Cracking wind up on the comments to that Echo story:
Felix
"Ever since the Heysel Massacre I have taken great strains to impress on visitors to this city who are a bit scared ,the difference between a kopite and a scouser. I explain that LFC is just a badly run company with offices in Texas and that non of their fans live in this city, this seems to calm the poor sods down. Now that they have hijacked our city emblem I can see a drop in numbers as people once again become frightened of our city and stop coming in the mistaken belief that the city will be awash with hooligans!."
Felix
"Ever since the Heysel Massacre I have taken great strains to impress on visitors to this city who are a bit scared ,the difference between a kopite and a scouser. I explain that LFC is just a badly run company with offices in Texas and that non of their fans live in this city, this seems to calm the poor sods down. Now that they have hijacked our city emblem I can see a drop in numbers as people once again become frightened of our city and stop coming in the mistaken belief that the city will be awash with hooligans!."
GhostOfDixie
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Who cares about the Liverbird that has been on Liverpool's shirt for decades. How important is it really? I can imagine all the quegs in their hovels bitching about it, and then when they finally get worn out arguing the toss - they walk down the street, it's a nice day. They think, what the **** does it matter? I'm jogging on, who's with me?
Oi you lad, where you going with that petrol can and a flag of Kenwright? Follow me, were jogging on with life. It's not important.
Oi you lad, where you going with that petrol can and a flag of Kenwright? Follow me, were jogging on with life. It's not important.
Defo on crack you lad.
GhostOfDixie
Player Valuation: £70m
I'm not but if I need any, I know who to call.
tsubaki
Player Valuation: £90m
Anyone displaying that now can be prosecuted.
I am a bit confused by this ruling - for the reasons in the article below:
http://www.lawdit.co.uk/reading_roo...=../articles/1236-reputation-and-goodwill.htm
Given that the Liver Bird has a pretty obvious previous use as the symbol of Liverpool as a city (which, if the Echo story is to be believed, the council and other bodies will still be able to use and trademark themselves), how on earth do the RS hope to legally protect their new Liver Bird trademark as being a "distinguishing feature" of their club, which is also called Liverpool?
HirsuteBlue
Player Valuation: £10m
Yerrrr Whaaaa
MapleLeafEvertonian
Player Valuation: £10m
Even from a like....non-scouser....I still know that the liverbird is important to the city. It is the city's emblem, not a football clubs. Heck even their own supporters are pissed. Liverpool have done more than fine without the emblem as their trademark.
Another classy move by LFC :/.
Another classy move by LFC :/.
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rubecula
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Maybe we can use the Liverbird in out club emblem somewhere. Just a little tiny one in a corner. Can't sue us for it as it will be part of our emblem and different to their big red poo-bird.
On second thoughts let's not do that, it will be lowering ourselves to their level.
Gawd I miss Higson's pubs.
On second thoughts let's not do that, it will be lowering ourselves to their level.
Gawd I miss Higson's pubs.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
In the case of Everton and the People's Club TM , the club thought they could get away with what Liverpool are attempting to in relation to street vendors: ie, that even though others had prior use of the name they, the club, could trademark it and that'd be that. Of course, unbeknown to ace business man, Robert Elstone CEO, one of the vendors had gotten their first and registered it: hence the club's turn back to 'The School of Science'. And this is the where the brass neck cheek of the Liverpool FC pursuit of the Liver Bird logo is writ large; they know that the City has 700 years worth of promotion of itself partly on the use of that emblem and still they seek to commodify it for their own financial benefit. Here's where it leads: individuals, charities and other organisations seeking to use a civic resource now have to get permission from a private company to use what they've freely been able to use for generations.
It's astounding to me they've been able to get away with it. When it was first mooted two years ago it was kicked into the long grass as an embarrassing PR gaffe. For it to finally be granted through non-contestation - and by a council who've been pissed about by them over the Anfield regeneration - is sick.
little curly alan ball
Player Valuation: £70m
Fukn TYPICAL !!!
The term ; If you know you're FUKN History ,... Seems to have passed them by .
( Unless of course , your History BEGINS after the Beatles were formed , you BLERTS !!! )
Columbia6
Player Valuation: £8m
They've trademarked one particular stylised version of the Liver Bird, which I'm pretty sure is their own design. It means that anyone else using the emblem needs to use the non-RS version of it (i.e. the original, for instance, which is probably what we'd want to use anyway). Anybody is still free to use the Liver Bird, as long as they don't steal LFC's own version of it. Their fans are angry because it upsets their printing of "protest" shirts, which I assume must have had their bird on them.
Plenty reasons to firebomb Anfield, but this isn't one of them IMO. It is their design.
Plenty reasons to firebomb Anfield, but this isn't one of them IMO. It is their design.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
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