[kddani]

if you make them for yourself, i don't think people would really care. Members of XYZ sorority are allowed to use XYZ in whatever they're making for themselves or their friends. As an XYZ, you're entitled to use your letters. Now if you're making a profit off of them, you COULD possibly get in some sort of trouble. If it's your own org, I doubt it, if it's another person's org, maybe. Especially those greek licensing folks, they can be a pain in the butt.

Example- I have a ton of those Cherished Teddies (unfortunately i've sold most of the "good" letters... i'm left with lots of Psi's, Upsilon's, etc.). I try to make them into a sorority name (Just for example, KD). Everything else I sell comes from a licensed company. But the Cherished Teddies aren't sold to people in groups, I just grouped them together.

Those people at greeklicensing created an ebay account to use the "ask seller a question" and sent me various messages about how I couldn't sell mark them as "Kappa Delta" or say in my listing "these would be a great gift for members of Kappa Delta sorority", etc. I got their first account suspended b/c that's not a legal use of ebay's "ask seller a question." Their second account, I'm not sure what happened to it. They tried to get me to join them as a licensed merchant- had to fill out a huge form and i would've had to pay them a fairly hefty fee, or else they threatened that there could be eventual legal action. But in the event of what I was selling, I wasn't all that scared.

They wouldn't bother someone who just had one or two things up, maybe something they had made for a little who had depledged. But if you're producing a decent amount of products and are not licensed, you are violating trademarks and licensing. While I haven't had IP law yet, it is a very plausable that they would prosecute someone.

I'm not trying to scare anyone, but it is a reality. But it wouldn't worry if you and your sisters were just making your own letters- that's totally okay.

But for Greek House to have a big website and have all these different options, etc. and NOT be licensed by any of the sororities could be a pretty big deal for them