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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Pugnate on Friday, April 06, 2007, 12:38:55 AM
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He is one my favorite players but really some of these sports stars need to take some things as a compliment rather than try to profit off of them.
Footballer in sausage row
A top German football player has demanded £200,000 compensation from a butcher who named a sausage after him.
German international Bastian Schweinsteiger (the surname means pig-climber) took a Munich butcher to court after it used his nickname "Schweini" which means Little Piggy, to create the new type of sausage, and won.
Now the player wants £200,000 as compensation for using his name without permission.
linky (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2271303.html?menu=)
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Well, it is a fine line. Someone else is trying to profit off of your name, without your prior knowledge or consent.
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reminds me of the whole baby ruth candy bar thing in the US.
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pig climber? ???
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So, if my last name was Burger I could sue the fuck out of everyone? Because I know a girl with that last name and I'd be willing to get married to the adorable little South African racist and take her name on.
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I don't speak German. We know that the sausage was named after him how? Vague similarity of bestial innuendo?
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So, if my last name was Burger I could sue the fuck out of everyone? Because I know a girl with that last name and I'd be willing to get married to the adorable little South African racist and take her name on.
Well, it's a matter of context and the individual. For instance, in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, some restaurant has a sub called the "Big Ben." It is obviously named after Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers since the sandwhich debuted during his rookie season and his nickname is Big Ben.
Now in his case, the restaraunt might have asked for permission first or Roethlisberger just takes it as a compliment. But I think that you would have a case in most courts if some one else was obviously profiting off of your name without your prior knowledge or consent, as I said earlier.
The "Burger" analogy is not a relevant one as the hamburger (and its shortened nickname) has been around for longer than your friend has, and your friend isn't famous to my knowledge.
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I don't speak German. We know that the sausage was named after him how? Vague similarity of bestial innuendo?
Actually the sausage was named "Schweini" which translates to "Little Piggy" which was apparently Schweinsteiger's nickname on the field. Which makes it a bullshiz case, at least in my opinion.