@colorado hirailer posted:During the Atlas beer reefer boom, and this would apply to any product in similar circumstances, an HO modeler had made a quantity of reefers with a large city's "long defunct" brewery beer brand/logo on it. He got raided by the Feds because a megabrewery had bought and owned all the rights to that brewery and brand.
That is totally nuts! Was he selling the models he made on the open market?
A smalltown brewery, with once wide sales, but now defunct, which never owned logoed reefers, in that same state, had imaginary G scale reefers produced by someone who claimed to own the rights. An attempt begun to make HO reefers with that logo, by someone else, unaware, as in the first instance, that the rights were owned, was curtailed.
The issue here is a tad stickier since a prototype never existed, but wow - what an overreach.
