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The Greatest Trick The NFL Ever Pulled Is Convincing The World It Holds Trademark Rights That Don't Exist
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 816" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190201/09480141508/greatest-trick-nfl-ever-pulled-is-convincing-world-it-holds-trademark-rights-that-dont-exist.shtml" target="_blank"><strong>The Greatest Trick The NFL Ever Pulled Is Convincing The World It Holds Trademark Rights That Don't Exist - Techdirt</strong></a></p><p></p><p>It's nearly my birthday again, which of course can mean only one thing: we have to write up a post trying to explain to people that the NFL is completely full of **** in what it thinks its trademark on "<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=super+bowl" target="_blank">Super Bowl</a>" allows it to restrict. This has been something of an annual series for us, since the NFL really enjoys pulling out legal threats to bully businesses and <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070201/140812.shtml" target="_blank">churches</a> over using factual phrases that do not in any way represent actual trademark infringement. The NFL certainly can restrict who claims to endorse the Super Bowl, or who can vaguely indicate some affiliation with the NFL or an NFL team, but the league instead likes to pretend that nobody can factually state that there is a thing called a Super Bowl and that it occurs at this time of year.</p><p></p><p>The output of this game of make believe is the world being a dumber, more cynical place. Businesses everywhere use euphemisms for the Super Bowl, such as "the big game." Everyone knows what the euphemism means, yet the NFL usually lets this kind of thing slide. This myth about what is and is not infringement has in part been perpetuated by non-Techdirt media outlets that parrot the NFL's claims, or at least warn everyone that the NFL is litigious. Which... thanks.</p><p></p><p>Most recently, this type of parroting comes <a href="https://www.capenews.net/bourne/news/fear-the-shield-nfl-enforces-super-bowl-trademark/article_ddec54ce-3626-5276-ab4c-c22eac35a391.html" target="_blank">in the form of articles such as this one</a>, unhelpfully titled "Fear The Shield." To be fair to that post, the whole thing is fairly full of comments from exasperated business owners being confused as to how the NFL can trademark facts when it cannot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 816, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190201/09480141508/greatest-trick-nfl-ever-pulled-is-convincing-world-it-holds-trademark-rights-that-dont-exist.shtml'][B]The Greatest Trick The NFL Ever Pulled Is Convincing The World It Holds Trademark Rights That Don't Exist - Techdirt[/B][/URL] It's nearly my birthday again, which of course can mean only one thing: we have to write up a post trying to explain to people that the NFL is completely full of **** in what it thinks its trademark on "[URL='https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=super+bowl']Super Bowl[/URL]" allows it to restrict. This has been something of an annual series for us, since the NFL really enjoys pulling out legal threats to bully businesses and [URL='https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070201/140812.shtml']churches[/URL] over using factual phrases that do not in any way represent actual trademark infringement. The NFL certainly can restrict who claims to endorse the Super Bowl, or who can vaguely indicate some affiliation with the NFL or an NFL team, but the league instead likes to pretend that nobody can factually state that there is a thing called a Super Bowl and that it occurs at this time of year. The output of this game of make believe is the world being a dumber, more cynical place. Businesses everywhere use euphemisms for the Super Bowl, such as "the big game." Everyone knows what the euphemism means, yet the NFL usually lets this kind of thing slide. This myth about what is and is not infringement has in part been perpetuated by non-Techdirt media outlets that parrot the NFL's claims, or at least warn everyone that the NFL is litigious. Which... thanks. Most recently, this type of parroting comes [URL='https://www.capenews.net/bourne/news/fear-the-shield-nfl-enforces-super-bowl-trademark/article_ddec54ce-3626-5276-ab4c-c22eac35a391.html']in the form of articles such as this one[/URL], unhelpfully titled "Fear The Shield." To be fair to that post, the whole thing is fairly full of comments from exasperated business owners being confused as to how the NFL can trademark facts when it cannot. [/QUOTE]
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