This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Jeannie, I'm sorry but I posted a reply to Wim to this list before I saw this. What is PTG-L? Gary Mc ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Jeannie Grassi=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 8:51 AM Subject: RE: proper use of PTG name Wim, and others, Would you please continue this discussion on PTG-L?=20 =20 Thanks, jeannie -----Original Message----- From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On = Behalf Of Wimblees@AOL.COM Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 8:42 AM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: proper use of PTG name In a message dated 8/30/01 11:02:30 PM Central Daylight Time,=20 cedel@supernet.com writes:=20 I am currently a PTG chapter president. Does that make me a = president of the=20 PTG? I would consider that misrepresentation. If you are a current member of the PTG, you are not allowed, by our = Bylaws,=20 to use your position in the PTG in any advertising. This includes = being an=20 officer, examiner, or member of a committee. =20 I can't imagine a former President (of the whole organization) not = maintaining=20 his membership in PTG until his dying day. Maybe the ad is not = technically=20 false, but I'm quite certain it will give the false impression. = No one=20 should=20 resort to that. Too bad.=20 Regards, Clyde There is a former president of the PTG who is no longer a member of = the PTG.=20 A person who is not a member of the PTG may not advertise membership = in the=20 PTG. Yellow Pages across the country are supposed to have paper work = on this.=20 Technically, this person could be sued for false advertising. If the = PTG=20 wants to pursue this to the full extent, it is my understanding that = the PTG=20 could force the technician to change his/her phone number.=20 But now comes the big question. This person is advertising he is a = former=20 president and thus presumably a former member of the PTG. Since he = is clearly=20 stating he is a former member of the PTG, can the PTG legally stop = him from=20 advertising as such.=20 Any legal minds out there want to answer this?=20 Wim=20 Gary McCormick wrote:=20 > There's a new tuner in town; he's got a nice ad in the yellow = pages where=20 he=20 > also claims to have been a former president of the PTG.=20 > So, I go to ptg.org to look up where he's from, and he's not = listed! I go=20 > back to the yellow pages, and sure enough, he doesn't have RPT = in his ad.=20 > Is this misleading, or copyright infringement?=20 > Gary McCormick=20 > (By the way, I just turned in my own application for membership = in the=20 PTG,=20 > to my area president, Kirk Alford)=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/8e/95/bf/0f/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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