Ludwig Van Beethoven Bust by Frank Kozik

It is very interesting that we( myself personally ) have contacted Rick over a month ago about this matter. We feel it is a direct rip-off of our company logo/brand identity and overall concept, which has been trademarked as of FEB 2007. just check out uspto.gov.

I have heard nothing back.

My suggestion is ( and maybe Rick will be happy about this ) is to buy them as soon as you can, because now i\’m mad, and i am going to have our lawyer start legal proceedings for a C&D on all of these busts.

I\’m not going to go into my personal feelings on what i think of (you) Rick, i\’ll just hand it over to our lawyer to handle, and hopefully we will run into one another sometime.

DOPE! – you know who i mean!!!!!!!! ( sorry the headline said Rick, and im multitasking – which has proven impossible ) – i don’t know his real name.

Ludwig the clothing brand isn\’t much really… it seems as Ludwig\’s likeness would be public domain anyway.

Not like it\’s an original concept to begin with.

Strange that you would build a brand off of a name like that, maybe I should start Marilyn clothing and send a cease and desist to The Warhol Foundation or anyone else working with any images or names relating to Marilyn Monroe.

Ludwig clothing is wack and kind of pretentious… like trying too hard to be different by appropriating the name and image of a classical composer.

Wow, so cool you guys must be genius.

Mike Ardelean should stick to bmx too and leave the modelling to someone else…

i believe the concept came to being on a gigposters.com thread in late 2006: http://www.gigposters.com/forums/anything-goes/51238-our-old-friend-ludwig-van.html

Really, this bust is already out there and will be sold. You are so completely full of bullshit. Get off your high horse of your shitty little clothing line and do something worthwile. This bust was in development before your trademark, it can be proven and by the time you even got a lawsuit off the ground these will be sold out and you won\’t have a pot to piss in. Did you get permission from the estate of Ludwig von Beethoven for your clothing, how about the estate of Anthony burgess or Stanley Kubrick? I thought not. Now GO AWAY

Hello…

I am Dan Springer and I worked on the concept of this project…

HI came up with this idea spontaneously after toying around with other Photoshop tweaks of Ludwig and shot it over to Frank… I don’t deny that it could have taken place in someone else’s head as well, it is a fairly obvious progression… the part I find extremely odd is that if you take and overlay the Ludwig clothing brand drawing and place it directly on top of the Gramophone magazine cover I used to make the mock up.. you will see that it aligns up perfectly… like it was traced from my Photoshop mock up (I don’t have that original anymore, maybe Frank does… but you can see the source image I used)… I highly doubt that who ever illustrated the Gramophone cover used Ludwig clothing’s crap drawing as the basis for their cover…

see here: http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/7137/ludwigtj1.jpg

So to the makers of Ludwig… I would check yourselves before making accusations… I know for a fact I never saw your design, and now that I overlay your picture ontop of the source image I used to make a photoshop mock up… yours is very much looking like a rip…

cheers…
Dan Springer

I had never jeard of or seen the t shirt design until this person started commenting on blogs recently. This idea was a colaboration btween Dan Springer and myself and was concieved on a thread over at Gigposters back in fall of 2006. I believe Dan has posted the link to the dated thread. After Dan sent me his photoshoped \’sketch\’ I had the idea developed into a series of vinyl and also bronze busts.

his t shirt design does seem to be based on Dan\’s design.

I have not recieved any direct communication over this matter from the person making the claims, if he wants to he can email me direct at

frankkozik@sbcglobal.net and I will put him in contact with my attorney.

Thanks

-Frank K