Friday, January 29, 2010

#LawyerUp

Amid all the fury surrounding who owns Who Dat, which for the record I think the NFL does not (for various reasons, a 1983 court decision declaring who dat had entered the public domain, the case of Sun Banks of Florida v. Sun Federal Saving & Loan Assn, 651 F.2d 311 (C.A. Florida, 1981), which held that where there was EXTENSIVE third party use of a term to such a degree to where there would be no likelihood of confusion, there is no protection, and the large number of business and events in town who use the phrase without any licensing and have so for years, even those not even remotely associated with football. As far as extensive third party use goes, look at this yellowbook listing: http://www.yellowpages.com/name/New-Orleans-LA/who-dat ) I decided I should provide my own Tshirt answer, the brain child of @curlilox, for all to use. For the record, I am entering it into commerce as a merchantible item and no one else has done so (as a tshirt, there is one book out there of the same name with an exclamation point), which grants me intellectual property rights with or without filing. You do not need to ever pay me to use it though, feel *free*.





For sale here.

1 comments:

Kristin said...

I suggest that I, www.twitter.com/curlilox, be paid for my creation of the hashtag #lawyerup.

That is all,

Kristin J. Milano, Esq.