here's one about colleges that, to me, is a little gray

[Frog]

I obviously shouldn't and won't do a shirt for Stanford or Cal per se, but what about a group of grads getting together?
 Something like "Cal Class of '70 Caribbean Cruise"?

[IntegrityShirts]

If "Cal" is a registered name associated with the university I'd avoid it. It seems kind of generic though. Like here at Virginia Tech, you can print "Tech" by itself without copyright issues.

[Sbrem]

Being outside of a major college town, Boston, we print for no one without permission from the school.

Steve

[Frog]

If "Cal" is a registered name associated with the university I'd avoid it. It seems kind of generic though. Like here at Virginia Tech, you can print "Tech" by itself without copyright issues.

That's where it gets fuzzy for me as even "Yale" and Harvard" are not exclusively used for colleges.
For instance, would "Schlage Class of '70" be more acceptable than "Yale Class of '70"?

I'm thinking that avoiding the word "University", it skirts the issue.

[Sbrem]

We do a fair amount for Harvard, but they come through a broker, and are directly for the school or one of it's associations, Business School, School of Government, etc.

Steve

[3Deep]

Here in Alabama we can get away with printing college names as some of the major schools have the same name as the state,town or city like University of Alabama we can print (Alabama) all we want same with Auburn University, Troy University and a few other college's as long as we don't use there logo's or typeface.

[Frog]

Yep, I'm going with simply "Yale 1954". I see no obvious reference to any college. I found a city of Yale, a school district called Yale, a forklift company, and of course, a lock company.

Interesting thing, this got kicked my way from Custom Ink!
Apparently a custy submitted some forbidden artwork (logo). After talking to me, the CI guy contacted her and gave her my name and told her that I could probably advise her as to how to proceed without stepping on any toes, and still produce something she'd like.
Where and how he came up with me is a mystery. (He either didn't mention Custom Ink or I missed that part, or I would have asked)

[GKitson]

Yep, I'm going with simply "Yale 1954". I see no obvious reference to any college. I found a city of Yale, a school district called Yale, a forklift company, and of course, a lock company.

Interesting thing, this got kicked my way from Custom Ink!
Apparently a custy submitted some forbidden artwork (logo). After talking to me, the CI guy contacted her and gave her my name and told her that I could probably advise her as to how to proceed without stepping on any toes, and still produce something she'd like.
Where and how he came up with me is a mystery. (He either didn't mention Custom Ink or I missed that part, or I would have asked)

Kudos to CI for Customer Service on this one.  When their polices prevented them from doing what the customer requested their found another solution for the customer.  May have been a bit of CYA on their part by not doing the requested artwork but they went above and beyond for the customer.

~Kitson

[mooseman]

thanks to Syracuse university the alphabet around here only has 25 letters,  also  'CUSE & ORANGE & SYRACUSE are questionable.

mooseman