Posted on 01/31/2014 4:15:10 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
ou've probably heard a bunch of local tire shops, strip clubs, and stereo stores promoting half-assed sales this weekend by alluding to some sort of championship football game, but not actually coming out and saying "The Super Bowl."
I, for one, am in favor of a strip club exemption for all copyright infringements as a blanket provision, but that's neither here nor there. The fact is, most companies are not allowed to use the phrases "Super Bowl" or "Super Sunday," both of which have been copyrighted by the NFL.
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The NFL's lawyers have gone after big and small targets alike (from The Motley Fool):
A classic example occurred in 2007 leading up to Super Bowl XLI between the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears when the NFL sent a cease and desist letter to an Indiana church group that had advertised its party with an intent to charge admission. The letter led to several other church groups around the country to stop similar activities, the exact effect the NFL was seeking.
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Well, being a nonprofit, the NFL has to protect its profits.
That should be looked into also. Forgot about that.
Radio ad from a few yrs ago that got away with it, for Dean’s Chip Dip:
“We can’t say the name of this event but it’s really Super...like a Bowl of Dean’s Dip.”
If Coca-Cola is the "official soft drink of the Super Bowl" and the NFL goes out and allows another commercial enterprise to sign a sponsorship deal with Pepsi for a "Super Bowl party" or a "Super Bowl edition of the Jay Leno Show" or something like that, then Coca-Cola isn't getting what they paid for.
Similar with trademark, NFL is attempting to retain exclusive control over use of the phrase. I'm not sure they'll succeed in the long run, see "aspirin."
I have heard of someone throwing a superb owl party. Celebrating the wise looking bird.
The only reason I’d watch that game (can’t say “Super Bowl” or I would get sued) is to see those drunken dumb asses who spend all that money for a ticket. Too bad the weather appears to be “balmy”. Who is playing in that game anyway?
Not copyright, but trademark. FWIW.
Trademark is for brands, which are usually, words, phrases, or logos. Trademark infringement is due to being confusingly similar, on related goods or services.
There’s a little overlap when an artistic work is also a logo.
This moronic article actually fails to give the answer to its own question.
The first answer is that the Super Bowl trademark covers broadcast and entertainment services, such as a little church gathering where admission is charged. The mark also covers all the different types of souvenir goods like shirts and hats.
But the NFL’s legal backfield has a few holes. Kraft owns Super Bowl for food, even though it started using its trademark about 10 years after the first super bowl.
The NFL would argue that its brand is a “famous” trademark (like Rolex, Coca-Cola, Cadillac, Smith & Wesson) and thus would be harmed by being used by others even on unrelated goods.
Even if so, that does not lawfully prevent the phrase “Super Bowl” from being used in a non-trademark sense. Yet the NFL still bullies others into fearing a baseless lawsuit for merely uttering the phrase.
can’t use Olympics either
You posted to the wrong thread. This is an emotion driven thread.
OK, everyone, hope you already bought all your snacks and drinks for the
Consummate Basin!
Stupor Bowl, Stupid Bowl, Pimple on the Ass of Time Bowl. All this stupidity could lead to the Boycott Bowl.
Colbert’s joke writers: Superb Owl
Gotta admit, kinda funny...
Hopefully, as you continue down the road of life, you will have other things to be proud of and to announce to the world.
/snarky comments (of which I am NOT proud)
PS If your comment was, in fact, satire, then my comment never happened... The Vast Right(Left?) Wing Conspiracy is trying to impugn my reputation!
How about in Spanish...Bowl de Super!
I salute you. I haven’t watched a stupor bowl since the early 80s.
World champs is another weird pronouncement
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Like when the wag(s) say
“Americans won’t stand for another _______”
My question is “Who talked to the Panamanians and/or Peruvians?”
FUMBLE BALL is FUMBLEBALL.....
I understand the point, but that is the wrong example. Having worked for over a decade at the Anaheim Theme Park, I can assure you, any commercial use of their name, without a written agreement in place, WILL attract the attention of their fully staffed legal department. Thank you.
I’ll start worrying about it when they stop trying to strip the name of the team from the Washington Redskins.
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