justflyingin

This is a problem. Many people aren't reading the previous posts. When there is such an article, this means that many, if not most of the new posters aren't getting any value out of the discussions on p. 2, 3, 4, for instance, because they only read the first post.

Anyway....about the big companies...
I've also wondered how they can possibly get away with this. My sister runs a business, and has received "cease and desist" letters from a company. The big guys do often like to threaten the little companies. However, my sis's lawyer says that the big guy doesn't have any legal precedent to send the "cease and desist" letter, so they continue on.

But...I also wonder why the big companies would bother going after home crafters when it is obvious what they are doing (making them in their living room and can't possibly be actually going into it in a big way) and they ignore or do nothing about the Chinese imports that are really good knock-offs and made in factories overseas and are being imported by the thousands if not millions.

If someone wants to use a certain brand and say that they use "Moda" or "J-Lo" or whatever....it seems like all you are doing is spreading around the brand name til it becomes a household word. Companies normally pay BIG BUCKS for such advertising.

How many of us use words like "Kleenex" to mean "facial tissue" and "Coke" or "Pepsi" to mean a cola or even just a carbonated drink? (Over here they use "Hoover" as a verb meaning to vacuum! ) These are ultimate compliments to these companies. They shouldn't try to squelch use of their names--all people are doing is spreading their brand around and making it even bigger.

But, I would love to see some real evidence that people have actually lost such a court case to a big company telling them to quit selling their home made craft items. Is there a link anywhere that someone can post here? I'm not surprised that they go around telling people to do this, but can someone give us some evidence to this. Thanks.