? Anytime, anywhere you use a copyright protected logo, etc., there's
money being paid, usually by the entity using it, not the owners.

Nothing new, been that way for decades.


Plowboy2 > wrote in message
news:2TXvd.1621$up.289@lakeread08...
> There is a f#cking problem with this licensing... Can someone tell me why
> Coke, Ford, or others Pays through the nose to have thier cars or products
> in a movie, yet game writers have to pay them to have thier products put
> "xactly" like they were when Coke, Ford, or others paid through the nose
for
> us to see the race we are "emulating", on our tv???
>
> seems f#cking ludicrous to me.
>
>
> Jochen Heistermann enlightened us with:
> > "Indy" > wrote in message
> > oups.com...
> >> http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/sport...ory?id=1945691
> >>
> >> EA ruined NASCAR racing by getting exclusive rights, now they're
> >> going to do the same to football.
> >
> > Since Madden is from EA, it does not matter.
> >
> > A more serious matter is that Sony owns the Formula 1 rights and does
> > not publish
> > for the PC. There are not much useful mods out for GP4, so PC owners
> > have a tough
> > time.
> >
> > Jochen
>
>