Texas A&M sounds like they're getting ready for a lawsuit against Yahoo and/or FIFA. The World Cup website uses the trademarked phrase "12th man" which Texas A&M owns the copyright to.
They didn't try doing it, they did it. The Seahawks had to pay them a $100,000 one time payment plus $7500 a year to use it.
Yeah! No question that a team whose player salary is 80+ million a year is definitely going to feel a little sting from that bitch slap. The Seahawks probably pay more in parking tickets than that fine.
How can you trademark a phrase like "12th man" which is common everywhere? Perhaps i should start copyrighting phrases like "dummkopf" or "arschloch"? This should earn me some money for sure...
That's where I heard about it. I'm a Seahawks fan. One of like 3 in Boston, if the last SuperBowl was any indication...
There is an Aussie commedian whose pseudomin is "the 12th man" - and has been for years. Fifa could give him a token paymenmt and say they are using his name, not Texas A&M's. (Anyone who knows his work will get the joke in that. )
Because copyright law in the United States is completely retarted. There's a boxing announcer that has the phrase "Let's get ready to rumble!" trademarked (or at least did at one time.)
Well they have to keep the school in the news somehow, because football used to be the only way they could get the name out there and now that they suck at that they have to find other means.
hehe, I was thinking the same thing. It's a sad state of affairs if the best form of advertising is a threatened lawsuit, unless you're a copyright lawyer of course
i seriously doubt that anyone outside of a&m will confuse the world cup for a bunch of guys in rotc uniforms and maroon t-shirts.
I think this lawsuit, if it goes to court, will be laughed out. By A&M's logic, is Office Depot forbidden from advertising that they sell staples since Staples is also a trademark?