As a reformed attorney who saw the light, I will defer to the lawyers on the
board.  However, a parody T-shirt does not violate a trademark.  If they
used the same color, positioning, logo, etc.., someone could argue
likelihood of confusion.  However, I really think this could work as a
parody.

I do expect the NC$$ to enforce its trademarks or at least, create their own
parody shirt, pass legislation and force all students at member institutions
to only purchase the official licensed parody shirt of the NC$$

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Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 6:10 PM
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Subject: Re: UND T-Shirts


The eBay entry is either over or has been removed, more likely the latter.
Some organizations (presumably the NCAA is one of them) and
companies vigorously enforce their trademark and licensing rights.  eBay
works with them on removing auctions in violation.  I stumbled into this
with Novell trying to sell some software I thought I had a right to sell,
but
turns out I did not.  Some lawyers informed me of my error.

Anyway, the other t-shirts are interesting.  If they are to have any effect
I
think UND also needs to work on removing the other t-shirts that were
mentioned in the USA Today articles.  They were offensive in general and
in this case did not help UND's cause at all.

Doug Peterson

On 30 Oct 2005 at 10:10, Kirk Eisenbeis wrote:

For those of you following the nickname issue at UND, you may find it
interesting that this is happening.

A couple of students have created a "I Am Not Hostile Or Abusive"
T-shirt design, and have sold 500.
http://www.geocities.com/siouxlogo/UNDsioux.html

Another Sioux fan made bumper stickers with the same phrase which also
includes circles with a slash through "NC$$".
http://cgi.ebay.com/NCAA-is-Hostile-
%20Abusive_W0QQitemZ6571836725QQca
tegoryZ14029QQssPageNameZWD10VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


Kirk Eisenbeis