NLA has received national press coverage!

[DarrenM]

Sweet, not had a chance to look, what was the response

I'll dig it out later mate, it was along the lines of Audi's encouragment of the scrappage scheme that included S2 RS2 etc..

If anyone want me to send anything to Paul at Pistonheads I have his direct details.

cheers

[Al Wyn]

Done... im pretty sure he will respond soon.

[Sonic]

somebody get a scan up

[Rusty]

Cheers Al

[Al Wyn]

Garlick on PH? Get him to visit the site if you can please. Having a week off promotion this week, will look into it next week.

A well earned break Andy will drop him a link to the site

[Rusty]

Garlick on PH? Get him to visit the site if you can please. Having a week off promotion this week, will look into it next week.

[Al Wyn]

I sent my original letter to PH but no reply.

As for the AUdi Forums, I have joined them and have posted up links where appropriate or added my encouragement to the posts already setup by existing NLA members. Need to get some active members of each forum on side really.

Andy can i suggest you pm Garlick on Pistoheads... hes one of the big cheeses there and also happens to own a rather nice volcano RS2 to boot hth

[Rusty]

Sweet, not had a chance to look, what was the response

[DarrenM]

Got my latest Audi Driver through the post today, the letter went in Andy and an interesting response as well.

[S2central.net]

The forum's live in lawyer hath spoken... Innocent m'lud

[HPmuirt]

won't Audi AG come down hard on you for using their name on a website without their permission? And with the nature of your site would provoke them even more!

The forum in question is not breaking the trademark rules as it does not offer 'identical or similar goods and services'.

If using the name alone was an issue then every owners club and internet forum would be in breach (including this forum) and that does not just cover car clubs.

Trademaking is all about using names, brands and logos in competitive situations, not about total ownership of the name. Just think about how many products there are called 'esprit' or 'supra' for example. Toyota only have a TM to Supra WRT cars. My company has also Trademarked the word Supra.....for microscopes.

However, that said, logos are viewed differently as they are more unique and can be covered by other rules such as copyright, as well as trademarks so Sonic did the right thing there.

Cheers n

Si

[Rusty]

Cheers Sonic.

[Sonic]

Thats why ive not used the audi logo in the design

The logo (both the "audi" bit and audi rings) are trademarked, but they'd really struggle to get anywhere with a pretty generically used name alone - being used by a non-for-profit community.

Either way, coming down on an community of enthusiasts for using their name is going to make their PR even worse!

[rotoryboy]

I'm just being the "Devil's Advocate" here and just anticipating what the corporate animals at Audi will do. Not trying to rain on our parade but you must anticipate what they may pull on you in time.
Personally I admire your balls for setting up the site but watch your back Rusty!

Don't forget the fact that we all love the brand and are trying to keep these cars on the road . They should be thanking Andy and the rest of us

[panzerwagen]

Hey Rusty, not to be an *** but....

won't Audi AG come down hard on you for using their name on a website without their permission? And with the nature of your site would provoke them even more!
I'm just being the "Devil's Advocate" here and just anticipating what the corporate animals at Audi will do. Not trying to rain on our parade but you must anticipate what they may pull on you in time.
Personally I admire your balls for setting up the site but watch your back Rusty!