dunwoody_33
Junior Member
What is the name of your state? Nevada.
I was an authorized distributor for company lets call it "ZebraCo.".
I purchased $10,000 worth of product.
In an attempt to optimize my website by having more pages in my web site, I went to the public domain and got a 1000 page book. To make the book unqiue, I replace common words like "and", "is" " the" with words like "psychology" "apple", etc. One of the random words i chose was the company name I then replaced words like "and" with the company name. I used the company name liberally throughout a document which had nothing to do with the company. So if you read a random page, it would read like giberish.... "frog cake was a vital zebraco people therefore" etc.
The company discovered the 1000 page book of random words i created on my website and was furious that their company name was used like this.
My distributorship was cancelled. I dont have a problem with that... it's their right.... however
My questions are:
If they sued me ...What kind of liability do i have? (i doubt more than 10 people even looked at that part of the website, so i cant see what damage it did)
Do i have a right to sell my $10,000 worth of product even though i am no longer an authorized distributor?
The distributor manual says i must sell it to end users in a consulting field but i am no longer a distributor, can i sell it to whomever i want?
If i can sell it, what do i need to do legally? (Im sure i can't use any of their pictures, but can i state the product name? do i just need to put (r) and identify the products as registered trademarks of "zebraco"?
I have a very well positioned website and would like to sell or rent the web site to distributors who have not been given the boot..... any suggestion?
Thanks to you pros....
I was an authorized distributor for company lets call it "ZebraCo.".
I purchased $10,000 worth of product.
In an attempt to optimize my website by having more pages in my web site, I went to the public domain and got a 1000 page book. To make the book unqiue, I replace common words like "and", "is" " the" with words like "psychology" "apple", etc. One of the random words i chose was the company name I then replaced words like "and" with the company name. I used the company name liberally throughout a document which had nothing to do with the company. So if you read a random page, it would read like giberish.... "frog cake was a vital zebraco people therefore" etc.
The company discovered the 1000 page book of random words i created on my website and was furious that their company name was used like this.
My distributorship was cancelled. I dont have a problem with that... it's their right.... however
My questions are:
If they sued me ...What kind of liability do i have? (i doubt more than 10 people even looked at that part of the website, so i cant see what damage it did)
Do i have a right to sell my $10,000 worth of product even though i am no longer an authorized distributor?
The distributor manual says i must sell it to end users in a consulting field but i am no longer a distributor, can i sell it to whomever i want?
If i can sell it, what do i need to do legally? (Im sure i can't use any of their pictures, but can i state the product name? do i just need to put (r) and identify the products as registered trademarks of "zebraco"?
I have a very well positioned website and would like to sell or rent the web site to distributors who have not been given the boot..... any suggestion?
Thanks to you pros....