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Apparently Redbull does not take kindly to my setting up and operating of RedBullRoundUp.com. I could go on and on as to my initial opinions, but here is the initial letter I received this morning from Redbull’s Attorney’s in Virginia.
I am not sure what I am going to do about it yet, but I will be contacting my attorney as well to see what my legal boundaries are. Bah, we were supporting redbull.. not clowning on it. What tools!
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12 Comments Creating Trouble, Redbull Roundup
Dave
July 21st, 2009 at 12:47 pm
1My friend had the same problem with Wawa. He had a site set up: I think it was thewawaguy.com. The idea was to praise Wawa – he was going to visit all of them and post his receipts. They sent a cease and desist type thing, and he hates them now. Bad PR!
In their defense they are trying to protect their trademark. If they don’t send letters like this, they give license for anyone, including competitors brands, to use their name. Thats the legal theory anyway. It is still bad PR.
Meta
July 21st, 2009 at 12:56 pm
2I can see their point of view, but they should have registered the domain of the event that they own / throw. Good luck with the lawyering. I’ll pound a Red Bull in defiance of Red Bull…
… that seems counter productive.
Nick
July 21st, 2009 at 1:23 pm
3Maybe they could be confused, but if anything, the site was there to promote the drinking of redbull. Very bad way to handle the situation instead of just saying “could you put a disclaimer just in case people get confused, even though we appreciate you advertising our product.” Some lawyers are so quick to mess things up, instead of writing a nice letter.
Permial Darkling
July 21st, 2009 at 2:44 pm
4Angus Red Bulls predate the corporate insignia by an order of magnitude. Place a picture of one of them on your page and slam them with impunity. Force them to purchase the domain from you. Post everything that they threaten you with on the site. Make sure to add the bovine hindquarter comparison.
Chris Schmitt
July 29th, 2009 at 5:38 am
5A trademark is a trademark. I agree that it’s bad PR but they’re within their rights. Perhaps you could turn this into an opportunity by convincing Red Bull why you’re site is good for business? It will be interesting to see how this turns out.
cmoreno
August 6th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
6that sucks.
short-sighted and dumb of them.
Jeremy
August 6th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
7I’m with Permial Darkling. Blast their name. If they don’t want the free promotion of their product, then they’re idiots.
I do understand the reasons behind it as described by Dave; but come on, all you’re going to do is piss people off.
You could make a fortune off this. By the time they take you to court and spend thousands in attorney and court fees, they could spend those same thousands, less a few, to just purchase the domain from you. Work it in your favor.
Who knows, you may have already settled.
Justin
August 13th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
8Haven’t had a Redbull since.. :(
Curvball
August 13th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
9Bummer… guessing my plans with RedbullTower.com aren’t going to go too far either… let’s see how this turns out.
Justin
August 16th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
10When did you start RedbullTower?
Curvball
August 17th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
11Haven’t got it off the ground yet, but myself and @jasonrai are doing it… collected around 100 cans of RedBull so far, need to start building the 1st of many towers…
Marjan
December 23rd, 2009 at 11:27 pm
12I love this theme, unfortunately it has no sidebar widget.
can you help me for this?
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