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I just Googled "MG Experience", clicked on the one that looked the most obvious and got a website of a guy called Mike Gibbons. It's all about American football and has no car content at all. He's even using the MG octagon. Can he do that? I thought that it was copyright and could not be used without permission of the copyright holders and I can't see them giving permission to a non car related business.

Bernie.
b higginson

It is mgexperience.net
Trevor Jessie

Interesting. I would imagine that Nanjing own the Brand. There must be hundreds of people using the octagon brand, I wonder how many have licence to do so.
P Ottewell

British Motor Heritage are responsible for licensing the MG trademark, among others...

http://www.bmh-ltd.com/trademarks-useof.htm
D O'Neill

the Chinese Octagon is white on black - well at least on the free button badges :)
N Atkins

I would doubt very much if he does have permission to use the MG octogon, the only club/organisation I am aware of that has permission is the MGCC who have it because they were the club of choice in 1930 by the MG Car Company. Since then a number have tried and failed miserably, we know who they are! :)

However I am wondering if actually MG Experience have permission?

A number of organisations use the octogon without the initials which of course is OK as shapes can not be trade marked I don't think? (NIKE?)
Robert (Bob) Midget Turbo

Can you patent the octagon?

That's a bit like taking a patent out on Stonehenge. lol.
Lawrence Slater

you can copyright (?) it if it has the letters inside it of a certain font/design with surround and certain colours
N Atkins

The octagon and "MG" inside it are exactly as the one we all know.

Bernie.
b higginson

Now MG is Chinese owned I think everyone is free to use it as they like. Surely the Chinese wouldn't have the audacity to accuse anyone of not abiding with copyright legislation. Karma!
Greg H

And the trouble with a chinese MG, is that after you drive in one, 5 minutes later, you want to go for another drive. :)
Lawrence Slater

I am a member of the MG Car Club NW Center here in the pacific northwest of the USA.

In 1957, Cliff Garlatz, a sales manager for Imported Motors, a Tacoma Washington foreign car dealership, applied for and received a charter from the MG Car Club of Great Britain. Cliff had a list of people who had purchased MGs from the dealership and invited them to the first meeting. This was the birth of the oldest, continuously-running MG club outside of Britain.

There are certainly a lot of other chartered clubs around the world.
So this is just to say there are official groups who would, it seems, have the right to use the emblem.
Rick Bastedo

Let's hope we do not get the silly stuf we had when BMW bought the MINI brand.
All sort of clubs, enthousiasts and buisneses who used the logo for years with out trouble at once got a bil or a letter from a lawyer....

so forget the sillines and let the octagon be used
Onno Könemann

Didn't a well known Scottish clan once get a warning letter from Macdonalds?

Dave
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This thread was discussed between 15/11/2011 and 16/11/2011

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