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Collegiate Licensing Company

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Added April 15, 2006

Their website address is http://www.clc.com/clcweb/publishing.nsf/Content/Home.html
They are located at 290 INTERSTATE NORTH CIRCLE, SUITE 200, ATLANTA, GA 30339 P 770.956.0520
What we have here is another failure to communicate. These arrogant assholes terminated 67 auctions on eBay by a seller named Hovihats because Hovihats was using their fabric to make scrub top hats. CLC claims the scrub top hats are derivatives. Bull. Under the Batlin standard, recognized by most federal courts, in order for something to qualify as a derivative it has to be copyrightable in its own right. A scrub hat made from licensed fabric would never qualify for a copyright you nitwits.
CLC seems to have some pea-brain named Maria Stanfield handling thier emails. She's CLC's Senior Legal Assistant which sounds more like in-house-moron to us. Hovihats had gone through this with CLC two years earlier and was told to add a disclaimer to her store, which she did. Maria claimed Hovihats was using unlicensed fabrics which Hovihats refuted.
Maria stated:
"Creating a derivative product requires a license. I have your contact information and will have one of our attorneys follow up with you in writing"
Except for a few things, Maria. A derivative has to be in of iteself also copyrightable. See Batlin, Second District Court of Appeals, which established this requirement based upon copyright law. Also see Derivatives on this web site. Also, look at Precious Moments vs La Infantil, First District Court, 1997, where Precious Moments lost trying to stop La Infanti; from making bedding from licensed fabric because of the First Sale Doctrine.
Making fabric items from licensed fabricis not creating a derivative. A scrub hat made from licensed fabric depicting the University of Somewhere is not copyrightable and therefor it is not a derivative. Maria, where did you go to law school? As a legal assistant, are you a lawyer? Are there adults at CLC supervising you at play?
Seems some dimwit from Sykel named Howard Leibowitz called Hovihats and was happy to hear her auctions were terminated. Hey Howard, why don't you and your idiot buddy Sy Garfinkel get a life? We know you can't get a lawyer. You're too stupid and both of you are cowards. Instead of taking action yourself we believe you cried to CLC to do your dirty work.

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