Can anyone confirm this rumor?

[Guest RollingSambos]

I heard that the company won some sort of settlement where they can no longer use the WWF Scratch/Attitude logo, but they don't have to blur it out on archived video footage. Any truth to this, because that would rule for future DVD releases.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

They can't use the scratch logo. They can use the logos before it. They are currently appealing the ruling.

[Guest Choken One]

Didn't WWFUND give WWFEDERATION a chance to settle it by just stoping the use of the scratch logo?

 

I still think WWFEDERATION should have just gotten a new logo. It needed a fresh change anyways.

[Fökai 0]

Didn't WWFUND give WWFEDERATION a chance to settle it by just stoping the use of the scratch logo?

No.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

They had a deal with the World Wildlife Fund where they would restrict the amount of advertising and promotion of their product in the UK. Since the WWFund had the initials first, the WWFederation had it on loan. The WWFed broke the rules by overstepping their boundaries and the WWFund sued them and put an injuction on the WWFed from using the the scratch logo. I can only assume that they made a deal in say, 1998, which allowed the WWFedaration to keep the name and logo (since they changed it). The deal they had before that and all the property and footage associated with it is fine because that deal was never broken. That is why the WWE can use it today.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

The WWE can probably buy their way out of this (that is to say, letting the scratch logo in their videos). It would take a 10 million dollar donation, though. Which is fine, cause that's what Vince and Linda made this year anyways

[Guest Choken One]

and they could make back that 10 million dollars rather quickly with the sales the DVD's will make (if Flair's DVD are any indication)

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

Yeah, but DVD sales aren't nearly as infuriating as Vince screwing all of his wrestlers by double dipping.

 

I just find it funny that Vince gets paid as the president, as a shareholder, and as a performer... then sometimes gets a bonus on top of that... meanwhile, wrestlers have to pay all their road expenses and get shoved off the card because Vince wants to rassle.

 

Hmm, did I say DOUBLE dip?

Edited November 23, 2003 by RavishingRickRudo

[Mole 0]

That's why Piper said "Never EVER trust a booker"

[Guest Choken One]

That's why my father always said

 

"Listen to a cracked up coke head...Underneth the gibberish, they are saying something meaningful"

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

That's why my father always said

 

"Listen to a cracked up coke head...Underneth the gibberish, they are saying something meaningful"

Wow! Words of wisdom almost as good as "Why buy the cow, when you get the sex for free"

Uh..its "Why buy the cow, when you get the milk for free"

 

The way you put it, it sounds like some advice from www.barnyardfantasies.com (I dont know if its a real site or not, use your own judgement and just dont bother looking)

[The Czech Republic 0]

That's why my father always said

 

"Listen to a cracked up coke head...Underneth the gibberish, they are saying something meaningful"

Wow! Words of wisdom almost as good as "Why buy the cow, when you get the sex for free"

If it wasn't for that horse, I never would've made it through those four years of college.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

You had to ride a horse to school?

[Guest Choken One]

You had to ride a horse to school?

In a Manner of speaking...

[The Czech Republic 0]

You had to ride a horse to school?

In a Manner of speaking...

No no no, it's from a Lewis Black comedy special where he says he's at an IHOP and hears a woman just say that line to nobody in particular, and it drives Lewis nuts trying to comprehend the directionless non-sequitur of a statement.

[MillenniumMan831 0]

"If it weren't for my horse, I'd never of spent that extra year in college."

 

I think that was it.

[Ace309 0]

"If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that year in college.

 

I'll repeat that.

 

If it weren't for my horse... giddy-up, giddy-up... I wouldn't have spent that year in college... a degree-granting institution.

 

DON'T think about that too long, or BLOOD'll shoot out your nose."

[razazteca 0]

If you are referring to Lewis Black then you MUST SCREAM AND YELL IN QUOTES BECAUSE AL;IFJWAOIJFA;LJGLKAJVGLAJFALKLLLLLLLLLLLL that is his style.

 

I want the cake and eat it too.

[Youth N Asia 0]

The scratch logo is blurred out on the Bloodbath DVD...makes the matches look ugly

[Mole 0]

I thought the rule only applied to Europe.

[Guest drdrainoscott]

I'm almost positive that the rule only does apply to Europe. But it would be dumb to have the WWE be called WWF in the US and WWE in Europe. I guess they also figure that it isn't worth the effort to produce two different versions of every DVD, and maybe they are worried that the Wildlife Federation will get upset with using the scratch in the US as well.

[Steviekick 0]

All it would take is a generous donation, an apology, and some corporate synergy to make the Panda people happy.