06-20-2018, 08:21 PM
Coming off reading "whats going on" thread, let's start a fight. haha.
Has anyone been following what happened with Tommy MacDonald and his Rough Cut TV show on PBS? Apparently he and WGBH went there separate ways last year and WGBH went out and hired Tom McCloughin (sp) to take his place. The new show is sponsored by Fine Woodworking magazine and his now called Fine Woodworking's Rough Cut. Well since they are still using Tommy's trademark name Rough Cut without his approval he hired a lawyer to sue WGBH get his name back. Tommy started out on YouTube years ago as Rough Cut but I guess now he can't use a name that he created. He talks about it on his Facebook page. I'm not a lawyer so I have no idea if he has a case, but I would think if he signed on with PBS and lost his trademark name, he didn't have good representation. What's your thought?
Mike
Has anyone been following what happened with Tommy MacDonald and his Rough Cut TV show on PBS? Apparently he and WGBH went there separate ways last year and WGBH went out and hired Tom McCloughin (sp) to take his place. The new show is sponsored by Fine Woodworking magazine and his now called Fine Woodworking's Rough Cut. Well since they are still using Tommy's trademark name Rough Cut without his approval he hired a lawyer to sue WGBH get his name back. Tommy started out on YouTube years ago as Rough Cut but I guess now he can't use a name that he created. He talks about it on his Facebook page. I'm not a lawyer so I have no idea if he has a case, but I would think if he signed on with PBS and lost his trademark name, he didn't have good representation. What's your thought?
Mike