I thought the settled all this out last year. Their rule is very simple: no charging for anything called a Super Bowl party. But you can have a party to watch “The Big Game” and charge.
The big problem here is that the court have long established that undefended copyrights and logos go away, that’s why Bill Waterson no longer controls Calvin and Hobbes. If the NFL doesn’t defend their territory against all comers, including church groups, then they’ll lose the ability to defend against anybody. Meanwhile everybody needs to learn the rules: Big Game Party is OK, Super Bowl Party is not at least if there’s any form of admission fee including a donation plate.
The NFL has made its ruling. Now let it enforce it. We are holding a huge-screen Super Bowl party, and I welcome the NFL to try and stop us.
I’m glad the NFL is doing this. The Super Bowl has no place being shown in church.
My guess is that they are shutting down the church parties so that the broadcast can be more obscene than the Janet Jsckson fiasco. They would call it “edgy”.
Haven’t watched since Janet Jackson, won’t again this year.
I have not read this whole thread, so someone may have posted before me, but I bet the issue is that the church charges an admission fee as a fund raiser. That would be a violation of NFL copyright.
This is a worse PR stunt than Ford suing the Ford fan club over the use of its name. PR + Legal = Bozo.
The first baseball strike ended pro baseball for me. I am no longer interested.
This did it for me with the NFL.
Freedom of Association and Assembly? Pffft.
Not that I’d wanna watch in a church, but how does this affect the NFL?
Laws can be wrong. And stupid. And simply too many of them.
After all, we could judge our laws by their weight, we have so many!
IP laws are only going to get worse with Hillary or McCain in the whitehouse.