Yea, I do not want any port of them...
Seems like unfair business practices to there distributors.
he only was they want Shaklee people to sell products is thru at home
meetings.
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>
> On Saturday 21 April 2007 01:10, Craig Mullins wrote:
> > Does anyone know how much control a company can have over their
> > trademarks and them being put on a web site. Any attorneys in the
> > group?
>
> I'm not a lawyer, but I know if it's their legal trademark, they have
> control over it. That's the point. Mercedes wants you to think of
> Mercedes when you see a three pointed star with a circle around it.
> Zenith wants you to associate their stylized Z with them. Microsoft
> wants you to associate that multi-colored butterfly with their programs
> and so on. They also have to aggressively defend it and prove it. For
> example, "Jeep" is a trademark of what was AMC but is now owned by
> Chrysler. When I used to get Writer's Digest, I'd see ads reminding
> people that a Jeep was made by Chrysler, it was not a generic term for
> a 4WD type of vehicle. I think at one point escalator and aspirin were
> trademarks that were overused and became generic. That's why Xerox
> fights to keep people from saying, "I'll xerox this." It would be
> rough on them if they lost the right to keep other companies from using
> their name and trademark.
>
> I learned about this from a few articles I read on trademarks, back
when
> I was a writer and needed to know what I could easily use, and as a
> business owner looking into what I could and could not do and what
> control I'd have over my own trademarks.
>
> > I am (I think was now) a distributor for Shaklee and I do search
> > engine optimization as my career.
> >
> > I was talking to people that use Shaklee products and asking for them
> > to write me a review about the product and posting it on my web site.
> > Shaklee said I can't do that and shut down my Shaklee web site
> > (within the hour) and didn't tell me it was shut down. They still
> > haven't told me anything...
>
> When you say they shut it down, did they host it, or was it hosted
> elsewhere? There is actually a provision in the DMCA that has been
> used against at least one company for shutting down a site when it
> should not be shut down. Your hosting comapny should have contacted
> you or verified it was in violation before shutting the site down -- at
> least if you're in the US. Some silly thing we used to have in this
> country about innocent until proven guilty.
>
> On the other hand, do you really want to do business with this kind of
> company, now that they've shown how nasty they can be and how quickly
> they can turn on you.
>
> > Had this expensive advertising campaign going and everyone was
> > getting a page not found error...
> >
> > How can they be 50 years old and get away with this? They said I can
> > never under any circumstances use the name shaklee, any employees
> > name working for shaklee, or any shaklee product name on a web site,
> > EVER.
>
> It depends on how you were using names and such. They can't block use
> of all employee names, unless they have some agreement with employees
> or you were using them in the context of Shaklee.
>
> Again, do you really want to let a company like this have that kind of
> control over a business you work hard to set up and count on for
> income?
>
> Hal
>
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