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Originally Posted by evildink
You're missing my point. I'm not talking about getting paid for designing a graphic, but getting paid for branding yourself. Essentially if you tie something recognizable to yourself that is sellable you can make more money on doing nothing but playing in your gear. If you have a design on your pads (whether you design it or pay someone else to design it) and get the licensing for it, you can agree to a contract with a gear manufacturer where you take a cut on every pair of pads sold with that design on it. Imagine if guys like Luongo, Brodeur, Lundqvist, Price, Fleury, etc. did that. That money adds up.
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Can you imagine if Potvin did that for his mask designs? I think just about every goalie has either worn it or played with someone who has.
Could you imagine having to pay everytime a painter wanted to use a similar design. That would send the costs up.
Also if I remember correctly you have to follow through with legal action on every case if you want to keep your patent. I could be wrong on this but it seems like that is what I learned or heard.
Another note to this would be once you no longer wear the design do you still get the profits? I would think yes, but I would guess that would be between you and the company.
OK that's my rant. I now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.