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To: steve-b
The NFL pulled this crap with a church here in Indy. Finally at the 11th hour the NFL caved due to PR pressure.

I wish the NFL would pull it's head out of it's butt and stop pulling these kinds of legal stunts.
5 posted on 02/01/2008 5:16:21 AM PST by The Louiswu (Never Forget!)
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To: The Louiswu
True story. This happened when I was in Japan. Nursery schools and kindergartens there paint cartoon characters on the concrete walls around their schools.

One got jumped on by the Disney legal team for painting Disney characters. They were ordered to pay a royalty or paint the characters over. So they painted them over.

The new mural used Sanrio characters (Hello Kitty and such) since Sanrio was so pleased with the idea of having their characters on the wall, they even sent one of their artists to supervise the painting. The kids and their parents voted to move their annual outing from Tokyo Disneyland to Sanrio's Puroland amusement park. Last I heard, they never went back.

I wonder how much Disney's greed cost them?

59 posted on 02/01/2008 5:57:56 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: The Louiswu

The NFL’s legal department is simply trying to justify their existence. Among their jobs is protecting the NFL from trademark and copyright violations etc., and this does technically qualify as a violation of their broadcasting rights.

Of course, suing churches and little league teams is not exactly what the NFL Board or PR folk like to see, but like any huge and wealthy bureaucracy, there are factions that are pulling in different directions all the time.


88 posted on 02/01/2008 6:47:15 AM PST by Teacher317 (Eta kuram na smekh)
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