Cease and Desist

[Guest AG/DC]

Amazin' Avenue using the name of an old kcmets.com feature.

[Guest KC]

Fargin' bastages

[nymr83]

I just had my first copyright class today, give me a few months...

[stevejrogers]

Aren't they the same folks who tried to do the top 500 almost in response to ours?

[Guest KC]

Steve J. Rabble Rouser

[RealityChuck]

Nymr83 wrote: I just had my first copyright class today, give me a few months...

I'll make it easy: Titles aren't copyrightable. If it were, Robert B. Parker would owe me big time.

[stevejrogers]

KC wrote: Steve J. Rabble Rouser

"You are a rabble rouser. You rouse rabbles."-C.J. Gregg to Josh Lyman "The West Wing"

Steve J. Rogers = Knows way too much mass pop culture references.

[nymr83]

yeah i knew that much, though if they were disseminating the same information as KCmets in the same style under that...

which robert parker book did you have something under the same name published?

[Guest themetfairy]

If you search "Monday Morning Mets" on Yahoo, you still get the kcmets columns up on top.

[DocTee]

A former student of mine, now finishing law school, just had an article published concerning copyrights and fantasy sports (do athletes "own" their likenesses, stats, etc)...pretty interesting, if esoteric, stuff.

NYMR, if you are interested I can send it your way.

[soupcan]

I believe that MLB Advanced Media (mlb.com) tried to bring a case concerning that but got shot down.

Don't know the details but I believe their goal was to get all fantasy baseball run through them or at least licensed through them.

As far as I know they were not successful.

Sort of along the same lines with what they were doing with fan-run, team-related websites a few years back that caused the ultimate demise of the original MOFO.

[Frayed Knot]

MLB itself tried to claim that they "owned" the stats generated from their games and therefore had the right to charge other sites who published them for informational or fantasy purposes.
They got almost instantly slam-dunked on that one in court.

The earlier stuff concerning their wars with fan-run websites (like, say, this one) had to do with the use of logos and confusion that w/could result with surfers confusing some teenager's site with the team's offical one.
They're on much more solid legal ground with that one even if they were swatting flies with sledgehammers in a few cases.

[RealityChuck]

="Nymr83"]yeah i knew that much, though if they were disseminating the same information as KCmets in the same style under that... which robert parker book did you have something under the same name published?

Playmates. My short story of the same name came out a few years earlier.

[nymr83]

DocTee wrote: A former student of mine, now finishing law school, just had an article published concerning copyrights and fantasy sports (do athletes "own" their likenesses, stats, etc)...pretty interesting, if esoteric, stuff. NYMR, if you are interested I can send it your way.

yes, please.

[DocTee]

Here's the citation:

Author: Ryan T. Holte
Title: The Freedom to Imagine Fantasy Sports: Applying New Ideas in Copyright Law to Professional Athlete's Right of Publicity
Citation: 54 J. Copyright Soc'y 771 (Summer 2007)

If you can't locate the fulltext, PM me your addy and I'll drop a copy in the mail ( by doing so would I be violating his copyright??)

Current copyright literature:

http://web.austin.utexas.edu/law_library/copyright/