May 06, 2008
Suing a Fan
A football site devoted to the Cincinnati Bengels found themselves threatened by the team they support!
Well, looks like the Cincinnati Bengals are first in something. The fansided.com blog network is a collaboration of fan NFL blogs run by UNPAID, Fans of the teams. Cincinnati has contacted our main office to threaten us with a lawsuit over using pictures (that are out in the public domain) that we gave copyright credit to the Bengals organization for. We have been forced into a redesign, as we cannot defend ourselves against Mike Brown's deep pockets. Funny, we've been in touch with the Bengals (PR Director Jack Brennan) via email several times (me personally). I've invited him to browse the site, comment and make suggestions for our site to a benefit to the Bengals organization. Instead, we get a lawsuit threatened against us (why, Mr. Brennan, could you not just ask us to make changes?).
I guess this will go over badly. Never pick a fight with someone who buys pixels by the gigabyte.
Posted by David Pinto at
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Don't minor league teams have to pay licensing to the parent club if they use the team nickname?
I don't think it's smart and would agree that it's counterproductive. But that does seem to be the legal nature of things.