Overlawyered » Super Bowl http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:11:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Super Bowl (TM) trademark controversy XLVI, or even higher http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/super-bowl-tm-trademark-controversy-xlvi-or-even-higher/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/super-bowl-tm-trademark-controversy-xlvi-or-even-higher/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:42:00 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27244 Ron Coleman has yet another installment in the ongoing annual saga of legal jeopardy for organizations that promote their wares (big-screen TVs, snacks) by referring to a certain football weekend event as the “Super Bowl,” rather that dodge behind the phrase “Big Game” or something equivalent. He corrects Consumer Reports on its assertion that the law provides an exemption for “news organizations,” which is not actually the case, though many uses by news organizations would in practice be exempted as fair use. Earlier here, etc.

More: “It’s Time to Stand Up to the NFL and Call It the Superbowl” [Paul Alan Levy]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/super-bowl-tm-trademark-controversy-xlvi-or-even-higher/feed/ 0 Lindsey Lohan sues E-trade over baby commercial http://overlawyered.com/2010/03/lindsey-lohan-sues-e-trade-over-baby-commercial/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/03/lindsey-lohan-sues-e-trade-over-baby-commercial/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:04:12 +0000 Ted Frank http://overlawyered.com/?p=16452 On Super Bowl Sunday, E-Trade ran one of their annoying talking-baby commercials; this one featured a blond baby named “Lindsay” (the 380th most popular baby-girl name in 2008) that another baby calls a “milk-aholic.” This, says 23-year-old Lindsay Lohan, was a violation of the rights to her “name and characterization”; she’s sued in Nassau County, New York state court, and is asking for $100 million. The advertising agency says Baby Lindsay was named after someone on the ad team. [lawsuit via TMZ; NY Post; Reuters]

Commenter Richard Nieporent reminds us of the similar Spike Lee vs. Spike TV silliness.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2010/03/lindsey-lohan-sues-e-trade-over-baby-commercial/feed/ 15 “Top Six Super Bowl-Related Lawsuits” http://overlawyered.com/2010/02/top-six-super-bowl-related-lawsuits/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/02/top-six-super-bowl-related-lawsuits/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:02:38 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=15954 As collected by Bitter Lawyer.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2010/02/top-six-super-bowl-related-lawsuits/feed/ 0 February 3 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2010/02/february-3-roundup-2/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/02/february-3-roundup-2/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:24:43 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=15904
  • Many of our readers liked the ruling, but someone didn’t: “Judge censured for ordering class-action lawyer to take pay in $125,000 worth of gift-cards” [BoingBoing, ABA Journal, Leonard/L.A. Times, Lowering the Bar]
  • “NFL Concedes In Who Dat Battle” [Lowering the Bar, more, earlier; here's a protest t-shirt, and more on those]
  • Some plaintiff’s lawyers give their side of the story, disputing fraud allegations in Dole banana-worker pesticide cases [Bronstad, NLJ, earlier]
  • “Google Blog Bundle — 42 criminal defense blogs” [Mark Bennett] And while you’re at it, why not take a moment right now to put Overlawyered in your RSS blog reader?
  • Massachusetts hardball: state lawmaker says private law schools might be breaking antitrust laws in working to oppose state school proposed in his district [ABA Journal via Above the Law; public law school plan OK'd]
  • Making the rounds: why medieval trial by ordeal may not have been so crazy after all [Peter Leeson, Boston Globe and full paper (PDF) via Volokh]
  • “Rothstein E-Mails Reveal Role of Former Plaintiffs’ Lawyer” [Brian Baxter, AmLaw Litigation Daily]
  • Obama: I tried to reach across aisle on medical liability reform but GOP wasn’t nibbling. Fact check please [Wood, PoL]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/02/february-3-roundup-2/feed/ 0     NFL enforcement of “Super Bowl” trademark http://overlawyered.com/2010/02/nfl-enforcement-of-super-bowl-trademark/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/02/nfl-enforcement-of-super-bowl-trademark/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:58:13 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=15883 Every year it seems to get worse, or better, depending on your perspective, notes Ron Coleman. Earlier years here, here, here, etc., as well as “Who Dat?”

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/02/nfl-enforcement-of-super-bowl-trademark/feed/ 0     Super Bowl Time http://overlawyered.com/2009/01/super-bowl-time/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/01/super-bowl-time/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:16:29 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=8464 Which means, for the NFL, aggressive deployment of trademark lawyers time. Earlier here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2009/01/super-bowl-time/feed/ 0     Our annual Super Bowl party post http://overlawyered.com/2008/02/our-annual-super-bowl-party-post/ http://overlawyered.com/2008/02/our-annual-super-bowl-party-post/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:14:33 +0000 Ted Frank http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5807 One of the many things I like about my girlfriend is that she’s the one who wants us to get a bigger television. Of course, if we got too big a television, we might not be able to hold our annual Super Bowl party: the NFL is sending around its annual set of scare letters to anyone offering a public exhibition of the Super Bowl on a television larger than 55 inches. (Jacqueline L. Salmon, WaPo, “NFL Pulls Plug On Big-Screen Church Parties For Super Bowl”, Feb. 1). Yes, you’ve seen this story before: Feb. 3 and Jan. 31 last year.

    Update: and at the WSJ ($).

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2008/02/our-annual-super-bowl-party-post/feed/ 3     Update: Takedown ping-pong http://overlawyered.com/2007/03/update-takedown-ping-pong/ http://overlawyered.com/2007/03/update-takedown-ping-pong/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:16:14 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4733 The match continues between Brooklyn lawprof Wendy Seltzer and the National Football League (see Feb. 22)(Jacqui Cheng, “NFL fumbles DMCA takedown battle, could face sanctions”, ArsTechnica, Mar. 20; Lattman, Mar. 21; Ambrogi, LegalBlogWatch, Mar. 22).

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2007/03/update-takedown-ping-pong/feed/ 0     “My first DMCA takedown” http://overlawyered.com/2007/02/my-first-dmca-takedown/ http://overlawyered.com/2007/02/my-first-dmca-takedown/#comments Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:04:26 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4555 Wendy Seltzer tries a little experiment, posting a video on YouTube of the NFL’s copyright notice displayed at the Super Bowl, not the football play itself. It takes five days for the takedown notice to arrive. (Feb. 13, Dec. 15)(via Volokh).

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2007/02/my-first-dmca-takedown/feed/ 1     “Attorney loses lawsuit over Super Bowl show” http://overlawyered.com/2004/05/attorney-loses-lawsuit-over-super-bowl-show/ http://overlawyered.com/2004/05/attorney-loses-lawsuit-over-super-bowl-show/#comments Fri, 28 May 2004 01:57:08 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=1079 “Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction during the Super Bowl halftime show may be a lot of things, but it’s apparently not worth $5,000. A judge rejected a Utah lawyer’s claim that CBS owner Viacom should pay him $5,000 for having to see Jackson’s bared breast during the Feb. 1 show. Eric Stephenson, contending false advertising, sued Viacom in small-claims court.” (AP/San Francisco Chronicle, May 27). On the earlier Boobgate lawsuit by Terri Carlin of Knoxville, Tenn., see Feb. 5, Feb. 8 and Feb. 14.

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