Ferrari Mailing List: Re: ferrari infringement ebay

[LarryT (l02turner]

Hi Michael,
   I'm afraid it's not really about them not offering something - it's all 
about their control of the name Ferrari & the Prancing Horse.  They've come 
close to losing their property rights in the past for not aggressively 
protecting the Horsey - remember the 365 Daytona replica of Miami Vice fame? 
They won that time and the replica maker had to stop but it was touch and go 
for a while.  At one point there was a whole gang of people making replica 
Ferrari's.

   Now, consider the Cobra replica business - Ford/Shelby (whoever owns the 
name) failed to act quickly to control their rights and they lost them.

   I'm no lawyer - but that's my interpretation of the situation.

   I doubt you woud have any luck pleading your case with Ferrari - they 
pretty much *have* to attempt to protect the use of their Horse - else 
they'll lose it forever - & once the horse is out of the barn it's *real* 
tough to put it back in..

   Your only possibility will be to market it without mentioning Ferrari or 
F308/328/355/365,360,399, etc, etc  - they no doubt hold the rights to those 
and a whole list of other names - but it would be pretty difficult to market 
a Ferrari 308 parts list without mentioning it was for a Ferrari 308 either 
in the ad or in the parts list-

   I suspect you;re out of business -

Larry T (67 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michel Savard" <mysavard [at] dsuper.net>
To: "Larry Turner" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 6:00 PM
Subject: [Ferrari] ferrari infringement ebay


> I’ve been selling  copies of my parts manual (1981 308 GTSi) for many
> years on Ebay. A few months ago, Ebay cancelled my auction. I took the
> word “copy” out of the title and the description. I sold them again and
> it worked for a few months before Ebay cancelled my auction again saying
> that Ferrari doesn’t allow this.
>
> Ebay gave me a Ferrari email address in case I wanted to bring my case
> to Ferrari. Now before I do that, I need some help as to what I should
> write to Ferrari about that. After all, they don’t make new parts manual
> for old cars anymore, they don’t sell copies neither. So, why do they
> bother ?
>
> Please help me make a strong case to Ferrari.
>
> Michael Savard (Canada)
>
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