QUOTE: Originally posted by Lotus098 I have investigated the price UP charges for licensing. Charging $20 bucks more for a UP $300 locomotive is silly. Since UP charged less than $5 dollars, so the model company is making a little extra and claiming it as licensing. Many other railroads have licensing requirements, but don't charge any money. Union Pacific charges a minimal amount, to raise money for safety advertising. It is not as if licensing laws existed in 1870, so how could UP always have been charging for licensing?
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QUOTE: Originally posted by dtpowell Seems to me the Union Pacific, and others, should be paying Lionel, MTH, Athearn, etc. for advertising thier product ! (I know I'm dreaming but......) I personally have started my own boycott of products with the UP roadname. (A roadname I don't model.) I wonder if the NS or CSX will start the same requirement for it's TM's. I don't like the thought of giving up buying equipment with the N&W B&O C&O etc. roadnames. [:)]
QUOTE: Originally posted by Big_Boy_4005 The thing is railroads don't need railfans, it's the other way around.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by Warburton I'm not an attorney and I don't even play one on TV, but I suspect that a manufacturer of toy trains may have a possibly valid legal argument against UP in saying that since UP has known about manufacturers using the UP name and logo for many decades and never raised a problem with it (or asked for compensation) before, UP has relinquished its right to do so now. Any laywers out there to comment on this?
QUOTE: However, since the UP can afford more and better lawyers than model train makers and calendar publishers, they will eventually bully everyone until they get their way.
QUOTE: Originally posted by Lotus098 They had licensing laws in 1870? If you say so*. *not sarcastic
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QUOTE: Originally posted by AlanRail Actually trademark, copyright and patent rights go back quite a bit farther: U.S. Constitution, Section. 8., under Clause 1. The Congress shall have Power To . . . : Clause 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; In England at the time this was not the law.
QUOTE: Originally posted by cnw1995 I understand all the major roads are now actively protecting their trademark claims - some, like CSX and NS, much more quietly than others.
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