Who has received Cease and Desist letters for their theme?

It's the only thing to give us pause to re-theme the boat as the Sea Org of Scientology.

The Scientologists won't bother with a cease-and-desist letter. They'll go right to massive lawsuits.

I've been running the Peanuts theme for 4 years now.......  I don't think they really care, or we are much less important than we all tend to believe.

I have been expecting a "Cease and Desist" letter from Mazda begging us to stop using their forgettable '93 626 to represent a 2014 Mini Cooper 4 door saloon.

You just can't hide "ugly" with some crazy "wallpaper" patterned vinyl.

These days you're just as likely to get a summons as a C&D if someone thinks you're Elmo.

You could also argue that anything to do with Lemons is parody, so you'd be covered by "Fair Use".

IANAL, but I'd think that pretty much every Lemons team's use of IP so far qualifies as fair use under the parody clause.  Especially for obviously-differently-spelled terms like "Spin-n-Out".  None of the valid trademark complaints like "causes confusion in the marketplace" or "misleads consumers" would apply.  Nevertheless, legal divisions often feel the need to reflexively threaten anything marginally similar, because the nature of trademark law is "defend it or lose it."

Nah, they'll just break in to your house and steal your car.  Actually it seems like they've been a little less lawsuit-happy recently; I think they got enough court slapdowns or bad PR or something to make them simmer down.

I keep waiting.  No love yet.

Better yet would be a visit at THEIR factory. :>

Nothing IP-wise. I ought to send pics of the Bunnywagen to Fisher-Price, though. Puffalumps rule!

I had a "move your car or we tow it" from my landlord, though. Apparently unlicensed, dirt-coated cars give themselves away as inoperable, and the city doesn't like inoperable vehicles in view. Boooooooo.

Insert "aggy don't unnerstand pun" joke here. I wondered if that was the same Benz.

I asked permission from Flying Lizards before mocking their cars.
They have our picture on their web site.

I dropped a picture of the car in it's current condition at their Sonoma shop a week ago.
After that, they won the race in Baltimore...just sayin'.

KT

I had one old guy give me a REALLY dirty look, pointed to the photoshop of Uncle Lee's face on Stalin's body and asked: "What does Lee Iacocca have to do with communism?"

I was seriously expecting him to throw down with me.  He was THAT pissed.