BOL Round Table

I am squarely on Daniel Moore's side. He has been painting Bama events long before the University and the rest of the colleges horned in on an entrepreneur's efforts and demanded a fee for using their image. To me that is a crock of garbage. If the university wants to put out an effort and come up with a good idea and create a t-shirt or a painting or a coffee cup let them do it and sell it. We the taxpayers fund the university and it is part ours, it's like charging us for our own property. The elites in the university don't know enough about the real world of commerce, they only know how to mooch off of the talents of others. I would love to see Daniel Moore sue the university for $50 million and collect. I detest moochers which is what the university presidents are in my estimation.

Are you serious? Do you understand the implications of something like that? Say, for example, I invent a line of Big Al toys and label them "Official Alabama Merchandise" complete with all the associated logos. Then it turns out these toys break and kill children. Who gets in trouble? Me? Nope. Alabama? You're damn right. Is it about the money? Of course it is. But it's also about making sure anything with YOUR logo and YOUR brand on it is regulated because YOU still own and license it. This is no different than any corporation protecting their brand in the same fashion.

For one thing Daniel Moore does not label his paintings as "official Alabama memorabilia", he created the painting with his own efforts. If you on the other hand created a "Big Al" toy and labeled it as official memorabilia then you would be lying unless you were working for the University. I am not against someone getting a logo and protecting his property but give me a break, the University is a state institution and it is all about a money grab on their part. I bet that you don't know that they can deny you the opportunity to sell a product if they think that your product is not needed in the market place. Is that free enterprise? Of course not. I believe in a free market and the guy with the best t-shirt wins. If the university is so good get their artists and economic professors to come up with a product that the public wants. They can't do it, all they want to do is take money from you with an idea that you created. Think about it, you are either a producer or a moocher/looter. decide which camp you'd rather be in.