How can Vinyl buisness's be legal?

[Keyjibbs]

So I was walking through the mall yesterday and saw a kiosk of a vinyl sticker and t shirt place. They had a bunch of companies logo's like burton, ford ,nintendo etc. It seemed like it was just a person with a cutter making stickers. My question is how can this be legal? Aren't most companies logos copyrighted? I've also seen this stuff on Ebay where you can buy huge Oakley stickers. I don't see how this could be legal. Why would companies give permisson to other people to make profit of their logo?

 

[ECGove]

free advertising maybe? i guess it just gets the company's name out in there, but i dunno why large, well known companies would allow it.

 

[BigJew]

It isn't legal. But it's such a small operation that nobody bothers to do anything about it. Usually the companies will just send cease and desist orders and they stop doing it.

 

[Microcosm]

This is pretty much it. Why worry about one guy selling a few stickers? Some companies, Red Bull being a pretty obvious example, will make a big deal of it. Still, others don't seem to care much.