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Terms like “Super Bowl” and “World Series” are trademarked, so advertisers use phrases like “the Big Game” or “baseball final championship series”, in this case
by dpiers 8y ago
Terms like “Super Bowl” and “World Series” are trademarked, so advertisers use phrases like “the Big Game” or “baseball final championship series”, in this case, to avoid a lawsuit.
- schoen 8y agoI wonder why it wouldn't be nominative fair use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_use Maybe I have to learn more about this doctrine.
- dpiers 8y agoThe NFL has aggressively litigated uses of their trademarks, to the point where you might technically be allowed to do something, but realistically it isn’t worth the trouble. https://www.thedsmgroup.com/super-bowl-trademark-copyright-2/ https://www.thedsmgroup.com/super-bowl-trademark-copyright-2...
- walrus01 8y agoYou can also run a really superb, owl themed event. https://www.reddit.com/r/Superbowl/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Superbowl/
- matt_the_bass 8y agoThis is awesome! Thanks for sharing. I’m sure to reference this next season.
- paulie_a 8y agoThe Olympics are down right evil when it comes to selecting cities. They will require long standing businesses to change their names of it is related to certain terms.