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Post by larrymoe on Dec 4, 2007 19:57:18 GMT -6
Has anyone ever seen a cool logo for a team named the Maroons?
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Post by larrymoe on Dec 4, 2007 19:58:24 GMT -6
Also, anyone know where a person could get some Berlin Thunder stuff? I think that's one of the coolest logos ever.
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Post by superpower on Dec 4, 2007 20:14:04 GMT -6
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Post by dubber on Dec 4, 2007 21:01:55 GMT -6
yeah, it's a country thing 'pony show'-----'football program' same thing
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Post by casec11 on Dec 10, 2007 9:26:37 GMT -6
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Post by casec11 on Dec 12, 2007 10:10:11 GMT -6
This is one I did for coach Bruce ![](http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y58/casec11/thunder.jpg)
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Post by Coach Bruce on Dec 12, 2007 11:26:06 GMT -6
Case..what would an appropriate banner size be? It will be hung on the fence each game at the field. What should it be made of? Can one be made with Velcro in the middle so the kids can run through it rather than paper each game? We can then velcro it back together and hang our colors with pride! How much would something like that run. You do great work man!
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Post by theprez98 on Dec 12, 2007 11:41:18 GMT -6
An interesting case. ![](http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/914/badgerswyk5.jpg) ![](http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/1466/screenshot001jt7.png) Would anyone really confuse the two?!
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Post by coachburgess on Dec 12, 2007 13:31:04 GMT -6
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Post by coachburgess on Dec 12, 2007 13:43:58 GMT -6
Has anyone ever seen a cool logo for a team named the Maroons? Well, you could go back to the original Maroons team and copy their look: athletics.uchicago.edu/football/fb.htmUniversity of Chicago was the original "Monsters of the Midway", not the Chicago Bears (the Bears couldn't find the Midway Plaissance with a GPS device). Also, a U of C player is the guy on the Heisman Trophy (Jay Berwanger). When Amos Alonzo Stagg was the coach there, they were part of the Big 10 and on par with Michigan as a regional football powerhouse.
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Post by casec11 on Dec 12, 2007 13:51:34 GMT -6
Coach bruce: We use a banner that breaks away...and can be put back together I am thinking it is 6x4 or 8x5 I am not sure. I think they would be around $150... They are made of vinal and any sign company can make them up. Another Idea is to have a custom flag made... I had one made to hang off a boat as advertizement for a fishing tournament and it turned out nice. these range from 100 to 300 depending on size and are full color. I would have to search for the company that made it but I wanted to do this for our team as a flag to carry
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Post by casec11 on Dec 12, 2007 13:58:08 GMT -6
From Wikipedia: A Maroon (from the word marronage or American/Spanish cimarrón: "fugitive, runaway", lit. "living on mountaintops"; from Spanish cima: "top, summit") was a runaway slave in the West Indies, Central America, South America, or North America. Maroon populations are found in Jamaica, Amazon River Basin to the American states of Florida and North Carolina.
You could have an M with broken chains ... What is your schools name or initials/ colors(I am assuming maroon is one)?
------- As for the two W's from Wisconsin the fact that they are trademarked and registered is what the fight is over. They are simmilar enterprizes. You would not see Burger king come out with golden arches in there logo. It would be trade mark infringment. Those Ws are pretty close and they are both colleges in Wisconson. Im not sure about this but , As for highschools, middleschools, and youth not for profits, the use of copyrited logos is ok if it is for education or charitable organisations. I would do some research on this before you take my word for it however.
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Post by theprez98 on Dec 12, 2007 14:40:49 GMT -6
As for the two W's from Wisconsin the fact that they are trademarked and registered is what the fight is over. They are simmilar enterprizes. You would not see Burger king come out with golden arches in there logo. It would be trade mark infringment. Those Ws are pretty close and they are both colleges in Wisconson. Im not sure about this but , As for highschools, middleschools, and youth not for profits, the use of copyrited logos is ok if it is for education or charitable organisations. I would do some research on this before you take my word for it however. Washburn University is in Topeka, Kansas, not Wisconsin. Their colors are blue and white, not red and white. The logos are similar, but not exactly the same. They are not in the same level of collegiate sports. Nor do they compete.
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Post by casec11 on Dec 12, 2007 14:57:52 GMT -6
As for the two W's from Wisconsin the fact that they are trademarked and registered is what the fight is over. They are simmilar enterprizes. You would not see Burger king come out with golden arches in there logo. It would be trade mark infringment. Those Ws are pretty close and they are both colleges in Wisconson. Im not sure about this but , As for highschools, middleschools, and youth not for profits, the use of copyrited logos is ok if it is for education or charitable organisations. I would do some research on this before you take my word for it however. Washburn University is in Topeka, Kansas, not Wisconsin. Their colors are blue and white, not red and white. The logos are similar, but not exactly the same. They are not in the same level of collegiate sports. Nor do they compete. I must have mixed up where washburn was. The fact that they are different colors will not mater. Much like a company, a school will pay large amounts of money to brand themselves. Being in the design industry I can see Wisconsins side of the story. They want people to think of their institution when that shaped W is seen ( you might ask: how many ways can you shape a W? I have over 300 fonts on my computer). They were using the Identical W at some points the story also says. I think the fact that Washburn had theirs trademarked after asking them to change it , is why they are after them or else they probably would have left them alone. This does not have to do with just sports, when they advertize their schools this sybol is seen and it is a copy. If a student takes a paragraph from a book and changes the names and some words it is still plagerism.
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Post by wingt74 on Dec 12, 2007 15:11:22 GMT -6
Don't mess with the dub-ya.
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Post by theprez98 on Dec 12, 2007 19:37:09 GMT -6
Washburn University is in Topeka, Kansas, not Wisconsin. Their colors are blue and white, not red and white. The logos are similar, but not exactly the same. They are not in the same level of collegiate sports. Nor do they compete. I must have mixed up where washburn was. The fact that they are different colors will not mater. Much like a company, a school will pay large amounts of money to brand themselves. Being in the design industry I can see Wisconsins side of the story. They want people to think of their institution when that shaped W is seen ( you might ask: how many ways can you shape a W? I have over 300 fonts on my computer). They were using the Identical W at some points the story also says. I think the fact that Washburn had theirs trademarked after asking them to change it , is why they are after them or else they probably would have left them alone. This does not have to do with just sports, when they advertize their schools this sybol is seen and it is a copy. If a student takes a paragraph from a book and changes the names and some words it is still plagerism. This does not pass the "reasonableness" test. Anyone seeing a blue "W" in Topeka, Kansas is not likely to think it has anything to do with Wisconsin. It does not gain them any additional money. They're not even a Division 1 school. The font is similar, but definitely not the same. Following this same argument, you could argue no school could use a "W" as their logo, as it might be confused with Wisconsin. We had an issue here at Penn State where we supposedly couldn't call our games "white outs" because the Winnipeg Jets (yes, that extinct hockey team who now plays as the Phoenix Coyotes and don't have white as their primary color) own the trade mark to the term "white out". Ridiculous! Lawyers with too much time on their hands!
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Post by casec11 on Dec 12, 2007 20:02:02 GMT -6
Lawyers with too much time on their hands! I fully agree with this.... And altough the W seems a bit petty, the artical states UW-madison had asked for six years that washburn stop using a representation of there logo before they took legal action. It just shows that it is always better to take a little time and be original. There would not be a problem if that was so. Wisconsin paid for the time and effort to create that logo, does that now mean anyone can use it?
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Post by Coach Bruce on Dec 13, 2007 7:53:15 GMT -6
Case..sent ya an e-mail.
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Post by gregspahn on Dec 14, 2007 12:54:15 GMT -6
The issue is the "motion" W that Wisconsin uses and, I would imagine, the very tilt or "forward" (state motto) motion that Wisconsin incorporated when they switched from the block W in the early 90's. They were smart enough to copy right it, and they should be able to protect their intellectual property. Washburn isn’t the only school that has had this happen to them. After a shooting at a high school in Weston, WI, the UW sent a letter demanding they cease using the motion W. Could Washburn and other schools pay Wisconsin for the use of that particular W?
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Post by justwingit on Dec 17, 2007 7:37:34 GMT -6
THUNDER -- some great music to come out to -- Obviously THUNDERSTRUCK and stuff from Thunderdome, and Garth Brooks The Storm if your rural! Maybe you could find a rapper to do Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head,
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