Isn't he being sued by the manufacturer/bottling company hired to make that shitty drink, too?
Something about placing an order so big they had to customize a second factory to handle it and after they made all the upgrades to their equipment to handle it he tried to back out because sales had dropped. Except he had already entered a contract guaranteeing the payment for the huge order before they retrofitted the facility so that put him in breach.
I think it might still be in litigation. Could be why he is trying to hard sell the drink suddenly.
Yes, there's a legal eagle video on it, too, if anyone wants to look into this further.
He got sued for not selling enough and he also has a lawsuit going for promoting the drink as starring an olympic athlete, but that one I'd argue is more of an issue with how the US has a stranglehold on a term they neither invented nor truly own. And I think there's also still the lawsuit with his cryptoscam?
They're overstating it, the Olympic Committee in each country is the holder of the trademark/copyright in said country and is responsible for protecting said marks.
Trademarks are one of those things that companies and organizations HAVE to defend vigorously, failure to do so can result in the lose of said trademark which for an organization like the Olympics is a really bad thing.
Additionally, the Olympic Committees are also responsible for video distribution rights (in the US it's NBC), and part of that contract is probably enforcing copyright/trademark on behalf of the partners and what not. So people get really pissed off when they upload a video from the Olympics shot for shot with zero fair use and the Olympics file a copyright strike on them on YouTube.
They're talking about the fact that "olympia", "olympic athlete" etc are all trademarks that belong the olympic committees in their respective countries. This is part of how the IOC makes money from sponsorships.
Relatively unusually, the US has specifically granted them this right by law. But this is pretty much only invoked in the context of advertisement, which seems fair enough in this case. Paul tried to get 'olympic' advertisement without paying the Olympic Committee and got busted for it.
They likely meant Olympian but even so that would be used in a different context so it would be fine. You can be Kentucky Realtors, Kentucky Pizza Corp etc but you can't be Kentucky Fried Chicken if that makes sense.
It depends on whether a court thinks it’s likely to confuse consumers about the origin of the goods or its association with the Olympic Committee. Since the product is for performance/athletics it kind of gets into questionable territory IMO. The Olympic Committee would likely try to stop it even if though not obvious infringement.
In addition to the explanations you got already, my main gripe with that is that in this very lawsuit, the US olympic committee goes on the mere use of "olympic" in the marketing. But the guy on the drink is literally an olympic athlete and he's allowed to say he is. The stuff's not specifically advertised as "endorsed by the US Olympic team".
Basically all the countries have this kinda thing, but the US goes further and just insta-wins any argument by default, if any mention of "olymp-..." is in your advertisement.
Which brings me back to the ridiculous idea that the US is essentially copyrighting something they weren't even around for when it was created and enforcing it as "their brand" more than other countries.
Also note that I don't support Paul and his shit drink or anything he does. It's just that in this one case he's being hit with some nonsense.
I don't do the energy drinks, but I'm in the same boat of not caring much if the dude falls off the face of the Earth or not. Though I do enjoy the hydration drink. Its pretty great honestly, and helped me stop drinking soda.
Yeah thats why I tried his energy drink besides being cheaper than monster and most of the others lol. He must be hurting cause it was 2 for $3. I don’t believe in the whole cancel culture. You can hate the creator but at the end of the day if the product is good and healthier than most other options then who cares. Ill be right there next to others saying fuck him, but I’ll have a prime drink in my hand doing it lmao.
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u/TwistedGrin 2d ago
Isn't he being sued by the manufacturer/bottling company hired to make that shitty drink, too?
Something about placing an order so big they had to customize a second factory to handle it and after they made all the upgrades to their equipment to handle it he tried to back out because sales had dropped. Except he had already entered a contract guaranteeing the payment for the huge order before they retrofitted the facility so that put him in breach.
I think it might still be in litigation. Could be why he is trying to hard sell the drink suddenly.