True, but in the time period we're talking about there was no Campagnolo USA. I think the incorporation of Campy in the US was a late 80's thing which is outside of the time period we're speaking about. I see the point about all the lawyers in America, I guess we've got to keep the unemployable employed somehow. They can't all work at gas stations (humorous emoticon of your choice here).
Totally on topic question, why did Campagnolo become Campy? Campy to me is John Waters films, but somehow the proper name was shortened and a "Y" added, why? There isn't any precident in the Italian language that I know of.
enjoy, Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
"Nobody can do everything, but if everybody did something everything would get done." Gil Scott-Heron
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, gregparker1 wrote:
> You sue the American Division (Campagnolo USA...).
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> I'm not advocating it, just letting you know what I've seen from my perspective.
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> We have ten times as many lawyers as Japan does (per capita).
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> Ask Shimano USA or Campagnolo USA how many times they've been named in a suit....
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> (Not that they're going to give you an answer).
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> Greg Parker
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> Brandon Ives wrote:
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> >I don't think this is really correct since Campagnolo is an Italian company
> >and Italian law is really lax and suing an Italian company from America is
> >almost impossible. This can be seen by Italy by being the worlds number
> >one producer of bootlegged music. The same people shutting down Napster
> >haven't been able to do a thing about Italy for 20 years. Also America is
> >one of the FEW countries that has moved from competeing with the Smiths to
> >suing them. Campy would be more like likley to be sued if they didn't say
> >anything about it since they did "know" it.