Subscribe to RSS Feed In Time for the Super Bowl: Copyright and Two Kinds of Football
This week copyright issues that pertain to football have been in the news. Both of these sports stories also illustrate the complexities of copyright when creators of content, consumers of that same content, and potential infringers live all over the world. The first comes from the U.S. where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland [...]
Copyright and Football
Now there’s a combination most people don’t think about together. Recently the NFL sent cease-and-desist letters to a number of New Orleans t-shirt manufacturers, claiming that the shirts, which depicted the New Orleans Saints “Who Dat” slogan and the team’s fleur-de-lis emblem, violated the league’s copyright and trademarks. Irate fans and merchants protested. Louisiana politicians [...]