[Closed] Nissan is taking legal action against Vote Leave campaign

Sure this is some kind of juke?

they need to hurry up it happens tomorrow

🙂

They're making a mountain out of a micrahill.

I'd navara believed it.

Nissan have their fingers on the political pulse(ar)

Vote Leaf?

There'll be Bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover before this gets to court.

Dats un believable

They'll Navara get that to stick.

Top wordplay 🙂

Leave campaign is allowed to reference Nissan however they should not have used their logo without permission as that's subject to a trademark, have had similar issues with presentations I have done. You can mention a copmany by name and speak about it as much as you like buy you cannot use a logo.

all about the Qasqhai'll warrant

Jamby, none of your serious comments! Now if you could just shoehorn 300zx turbo into a sentence please.

Cherry on the top for the leaf party 🙂

Leave campaign is allowed to reference Nissan however they should not have used their logo without permission as that's subject to a trademark, have had similar issues with presentations I have done. You can mention a copmany by name and speak about it as much as you like buy you cannot use a logo.

They dont have a prairie.

The claim is pie in the skyline.

I showed my son as an example of litigation gone mad, I said," Dat, son, is wasting the courts time."

You can mention a copmany by name and speak about it as much as you like buy you cannot use a logo.

How did you figaro that out? You can, it's called nominative fair use.
http://intellectualpropertysolicitor.org/intellectual-property-2/fair-trademark-nominative-fair/

You clearly don't have you finger on the pulsar with this one.

ribena - Member
You can mention a copmany by name and speak about it as much as you like buy you cannot use a logo.
How did you figaro that out? You can, it's called nominative fair use.
http://intellectualpropertysolicitor.org/intellectual-property-2/fair-trademark-nominative-fair/

You clearly don't have you finger on the pulsar with this one.

Its another Rogue #Jambafact

It just had to be the Leaf campaign, didn't it.

Edit: substantially beaten to it by monkeysfeet and a non-page refresh.

They wont Stanza for it, they'll come at them with the full force of the Laurel

How did you figaro that out?

Ah, that reminds me of one of my two favourite operas. The Marriage of Figaro. The other is Turandot. I just can't get enough of Nissan Dorma.

Isn't there also the issue for Nissan that their views were potentially misrepresented?

I saw the story yesterday and can't recall exactly but I think Leave used some selective quoting that suggested Nissan was leave but they were in fact more "remain" in outlook.

I also would hazard a guess that a number of the companies whose logos were used in that photo the article uses are more likely to be neutral or in than they are out.

Isn't there also the issue for Nissan that their views were potentially misrepresented?

Yep they could go for defamation; being associated with leave is bad for anyone....

And yes, Jamba is completely wrong as per usual...

[quote=garage-dweller ]Isn't there also the issue for Nissan that their views were potentially misrepresented?

I'm not sure there is, as no claim is being made about their views on whether we should stay or leaf, simply on whether they'd stay in the UK or note.

Do you think that Nissan Patrol business premises to see who's misusing their logo?

I wonder on what grounds they're suing them. I bet it's for a massive pile of Qashqai

rockhopper70 - Member
I showed my son as an example of litigation gone mad, I said," Dat, son, is wasting the courts time."

*convoluted Datsun pun possibly taken seriously alert*

Sorry it was so bad I didn't spot it - not old enough 😉

Can we leave this word play thinG T his is a serious issue...

I'd actually like the law to be changed to stop these blatant untruths. In professional life people are bound by the code of conduct of their professional institutions as well as by the letter of the law and various guidelines.

This does not apply to politicians. By all means allow them to bullshit about their future plans, but it's about time this "lie and lie enough it becomes true" approach was stopped.

I'd personally like to see BJ, Gove, Farage etc sued and taken to the cleaners. Not for I'm being vindictive (although that would be the cream on top), but because that is what any other professional risks when they start to deliberately lie and mislead

Sorry it was so bad I didn't spot it - not old enough

Compliment/Insult 😯

It's cynically timed for poll day.

Primera-ly

Sorry to be dull but joking aside, I've seen the internal email stating the companies' position on this and they really aren't happy. They've repeatedly asked the Leave campaign to stop using the logo and stop misrepresenting them and been ignored.

Official company line is "vote how you like" as they don't want to be seen getting involved in politics or trying to sway the vote but they have made it quite clear they are very much in the remain camp.

Pretty desperate measures from the leave campaign and very worrying that they need to resort to blatant lies to try and get support.

also dull here :O)
This is not "in time for polling day" the story and legal action have been out there for over a week but not widely reported for some reason?

I guess comparatively speaking its just a tiny "leave" lie and therefore hardly worth the effort beside the other massive whoppers roaming the landscape?

Remember, as they used to say in Belfast:
"Vote early, vote often!"

OK, so I did covered that earlier - the only claim being made on that note is that they've said they won't leaf the UK in the case of Brexit. Is that untrue or is it a juke?

I don't think Nissan are in the wrong taking action, they've told them already to take it down and because they have ignored this it's gone public.

Without wishing to derail...

next to those of four other major companies

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So that's Nissan plus
1 Toyota
2 Vauxhall
3 General Electric
4 Unilever
5 Airbus

Or am I being stupid?

Toyota have already made a statement about this too:

How strange - you'd have thought Toyota's position would be Aygo

If Toyota or Nissan want to go. Go! Why the nosey affairs?

We shall welcome S. Korean brands into UK or other Japanese car brand or even Chinese Rover back ... 😀

This is getting dull zzzzzzzzzz but used to be super fast

I would say it is 300Z ExTurbo dull

bearnecessities - I tried 300ZX Turbo

WorldClassAccident - Member

This is getting dull zzzzzzzzzz but used to be super fast

I would say it is 300Z ExTurbo dull

bearnecessities - I tried 300ZX Turbo

We used to race with Datsun 260Z in the far east ...

One local boy had Datsun 280Z which used to be the king of the road until we found Toyota 4AGE engine.