Re: ADT Yard Signs

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Robert L Bass wrote:
> > How did you obtain an ADT sign "legally"
> > without buying an alarm from ADT? My
> > lawnsigns are my property...
>
> That depends on what ADT may have done.  If they left the sigs there after the client stopped dealing with them the signs are
> abandoned.  Considering they rarely even collect leased alarm systems, I doubt they're about to go around collecting old lawn signs.
> Besaides, they don't put them up as a deterrent to theft.  They're advertising for the alarm company.
>
> If ADT labels the sigs as company property and makes a reasonable effort to collect them at the expiration of the contract, then ADT
> has the right to their return.  However, if ADT abandons them they become the property of the homeowner and he can do whatever he
> wants with them.
>
> > and covered by my tradename (similar to
> > copyright protection...
>
> Not really.  The material printed on them is covered under trademark and copyright laws but not the physical signs themselves.  It's
> more a book which you write.  If someone in lawful possession of the book wants to sell it on eBay he has every right to do so.  He
> just copy and can't publish the book.
>

For all the flack you get around here, Bass, it appears as though you
do know what you're talking about....  At least sometimes.  ;)