On Tuesday 14 September 2004 22:47, David Schleef wrote: > Using team names (and especially team logos) is a good way to get > to the pointy end of a lawsuit. The names and logos are almost > certainly under trademark protection, and generally aggressively > guarded, since licensing names and logos to shirt makers (and > game producers) is a huge revenue stream. > > Names of people are (curiously) less protected. It's probably > defendable to use players' names in a game, but (at least in the > US) it would likely attract annoying lawyers, too. I wouldn't > recommend it. But then, I morally feel celebrities deserve the > same protection in their own name as a corporation. I suppose using only city names for teams would be ok. Right?
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