Remember the 2004 Bush reelection stickers on the back of all the Chevy Suburbans, oval with a W with an american flag waving from one of the uprights of the letter? Jerry Gossett claims he pitched the Republican National Committee with a very, very similar design and was rebuked. He is seeking $100 million in damages for copyright infreingement from the RNC and Spalding Group, the maker of RNC’s campaign material. A federal judge in Texarkana just greenlighted the trial and set a date of Nov. 7. The RNC denies the claims and a lawyer for Spalding said in a letter to Mr. Gossett’s lawyer that his design did not meet the legal test of being ‘’substantially similar” to Spalding’s.
Filed under: 2006 Copyright Cases, Infringment Cases
Where did you get the $100 million figure? Gossett and his lawyers never put a monetary figure in their suit until asked by the judge during the trial.
Sorry, was from the article. What was the final figure?