Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

> The thing is, this is dave's business name and trademarks you are using.
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St. Helena, CA - Synthesizer manufacturer Dave Smith Instruments is pleased 
to announce that Dave Bryce has joined their team as National Sales Manager. 
Bryce will also serve as a marketing consultant for DSI.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julian" <jujulilianan@...>
To: <DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Evolver] DSI swag - cool or not?


>
> On Mon, 16 May 2005 05:57:51 -0000, "Dave Bryce" <musicdave9@...>
> said:
>
>> So, I'd love to get some feedback on this - is it cool?  Not so cool?
>
> It's cool to make shirts and stuff for people to wear, particularly if
> you have dave smith's approval.
>
> Without approval, I'd say it's definately NOT cool for you to be making
> a profit off it.
>
> No approval, and not making a profit? well, It's neither here or there
> from where I'm sitting. DS may disagreee.
>
> The thing is, this is dave's business name and trademarks you are using.
> It's another person's intellectual property. how would you feel if you
> had a band that was popular enough to sell t-shirts on the net, and
> someone else opened a cafepress site using your bandname and song/album
> titles, and images? then to top it off, sent you an email asking to
> advertise their site on your web page?
>
>> Any feedback (positive or negative) is appreciated...
>>
> intellectual property issues aside, I wouldn't wear one.... but that's
> more from a not liking plain old logo-shirts or photo shirts kinda
> thing.
>
> I wear lots of t-shirts but I like very minimal, clean line art graphics
> kinda stuff...  if anything, I'd wear a shirt with the evolver signal
> flow diagram (or part therof, cause the whole thing is a bit too
> complex) and maybe DSI/evolver (front panel logo font!) in really small
> text out of the way of the image, if I absolutely had to...
>
> oh. and I don't wear white t-shirts. ever. they stain too easy, and they
> look like arse anyway. light colours are a possibility, depending on how
> well they're done. heavy colours are best. How about something in a nice
> solid DSI evolver blue?
>
>
>
> julian
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