Santa Cruz Surfing Museum Struggles Financially and with Stolen Logo

It seems like all the really juicy museum stories have been coming out of California lately and we continue the trend here. The small Santa Cruz Surfing Museum is suffering, like most other institutions, lugging around behind it a seven million dollar deficit. While fundraisers and volunteers have helped to push the museum along, a new problem has sprung up: the grandson of one of the original founders of the club-turned-museum, Ryan Rittenhouse, has begun using their logo for his own clothing line, having discovered that the brand was never copyrighted and so he snapped it up as quickly as he could.

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