Blawg Review # 242
Ron ColemanWelcome to Blawg Review. Cold, rainy, prematurely wintry greetings from metropolitan New York. No exclamation point. It has been that kind of year, it seems. Nothing depressing about it, or…
Bad moments in lawyer advertising
Above the Law reports: Belluck & Fox is a nine-attorney law firm in Manhattan. The firm worked out a deal with the radio station that broadcasts New York Yankees games,…
MLB, IP piggies, strike again
Ron ColemanSusan Scafidi writes about a guy who was stopped by Major League Baseball from selling “baseball shirts” that look like this (on the right): Huh? Her take: While typefaces themselves…
MLB whiffs on the right of publicity
Alec Rogers: In recent decades, Major League Baseball has made great strides in developing its business operation. No longer content to make money from tickets, concession sales, and a few…
Virtually athletic
Marc Edelman at Abovethelaw: On Friday, February 22, Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P. (“MLBAM”) and the Major League Baseball Players Association (“MLBPA”) filed a petition for a writ of…
Pure evil
And it doesn’t even exactly involve the Red Sox: Various buildings overlook Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs. Entities unrelated to the Cubs operate businesses on those buidlings’ rooftops,…
Major League Baseball steals from customers
Compelling blog post title, no? So typical of the bloated steroid brains running that business. Yes, guys, you’ll always be able to do just whatever you want to fans, because…
The merger doctrine and copyright in data
In the New York Law Journal: Copyright does not protect facts, but (with a few notable exceptions such as fashion design) it protects almost any kind of creative expression even…
Foul baller
Ron ColemanA former major leaguer goes from giving up runs to running from the law. From pitch counts to multiple counts. From pitching and hitting to counterfeiting. From — You get…
Trademark City
The Strategic Name Development blog reports that the naming rights to the New York Mets’ new baseball stadium have been sold to Citigroup. The stadium will be called “CitiField” and…
Best of 2006: Trademark City
The Strategic Name Development blog reports that the naming rights to the New York Mets’ new baseball stadium have been sold to Citigroup. The stadium will be called “CitiField” and…
Baseball been very, very good to lawyers
Do you remember the lawsuit by Major League Baseball over the use of — well, not statistics, exactly, but the rights of publicity in baseball players and, marginally, the use…
Major League Baseball – SDNY Balks?
A potentially troubling (from the teams’ point of view) thought from the Southern District of New York in a case brought by Major League Baseball against a company selling beanbags…