Run-DMC Sues Wal-Mart, Amazon for $50 Million

[swerve]

Don't companies like Amazon and Walmart check this shyt before selling them

 

[daze23]

They are listed on Wal-Mart's site as "RUN DMC glasses" and the hat and rope as also listed as a RUN DMC Halloween costume.

Run DMC Rapper Retro Large Clear Lens Eye Glasses Black - Walmart.com
Customer Reviews: Run DMC Old School Rapper Kit Halloween Costume - Walmart.com

Fred.

it will be interesting to see who gets held responsible since it's being sold by a third party (Gravity Trading Inc)

here's their actual site

Run DMC Rapper Retro Large Clear Lens Eye Glasses Black

 

[ORDER_66]

Don't companies like Amazon and Walmart check this shyt before selling them

EDITED: they just probably didnt care...

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

We need Breh and Breh Associates to come make legal sense of this for us

 

[BK The Great]

damn $50 million? i'd be swimming in that shyt like

 

[Harry B]

These people have a revenue of like 600 billion bucks and employ 3 million people and they are so cheap they can't pay a little fee?
I hope they win , Jojo needs a life coach too.

 

[hex]

it will be interesting to see who gets held responsible since it's being sold by a third party (Gravity Trading Inc)

here's their actual site

Run DMC Rapper Retro Large Clear Lens Eye Glasses Black

All three I would assume.

Fred.

 

[kingstl]

They may as well settle for 10 mill now and get it out the way

 

[FeloniousMonk]

for the shirt, sure. for the rest it depends how it was marketed. it's not like Run DMC owns the rights to the glasses, hat, and rope chain

More than likely the rest of the products where marketed along side the other merch as to promote a RUN-DMCesque brand.

They dont own the rights to the look, yet they made it popular and the store is marketing their likeness based on that..

 

[KnowledgeOfSelf17]

I knew that was going on, I had a feeling that. People wearing random RUN DMC shirts was a copyright infringement. They don't even have a clothing line!

 

[ORDER_66]

I knew that was going on, I had a feeling that. People wearing random RUN DMC shirts was a copyright infringement. They don't even have a clothing line!

Isnt run dmc trademarked???

 

[daze23]

I knew that was going on, I had a feeling that. People wearing random RUN DMC shirts was a copyright infringement. They don't even have a clothing line!

they could be officially licensed

 

[itsyoung!!]

These people have a revenue of like 600 million bucks and employ 3 million people and they are so cheap they can't pay a little fee?
I hope they win , Jojo needs a life coach too.

walmart? 600 million? did you misplace the M with the B? Their 2015 revenue was $482.1 billion

BILLION

BILL - ION

450-500 B-I-L-L-I-O-N A YEAR IN REVENUE

In 2013, Walmart's global net sales amounted to about 465.6 billion U.S. dollars.

$600 million is like a half a day for Walmart..

 

[CashmereThoughts]

at the bare minimum Walmart is coming up off the sales for the Run DMC shirts

what am i missing? how does one of the biggest retailers in the world sell unlicensed merch??

 

[hex]

They may as well settle for 10 mill now and get it out the way

That's why you aim high initially. It's not usually a realistic goal for something like this. They hit you with a counter offer, you go from there.

Fred.