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Hi everybody, just saw this Notre Dame forces school to quit using logo I ,like the majority of the rest of you, definitely respect the rights of copyright and trademark but I think that in this case Notre Dame could've done more for themselves by doing a limited license to the school. I also have to wonder- at what point should there be a statute of limitations that would prevent a copyright holder from suing after a logo has been used for so long?

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I'd love to have a lawyer chime in on this, but my understanding is that the amount of time they've been using it isn't as important as how long Notre Dame has known about it. Otherwise small schools could steal with impunity.

I don't see any great benefit to granting the school any kind of license to use the logo. Notre Dame has every right to an exclusive use of their own property. There's an argument that spreading the mark around diminishes it.

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Agreed with Gothamite. If I steal your watch, and just hide it from you for 3 years, it's not like it becomes mine (or at least it shouldn't be like that.) But if I wear it in plain sight of you, and you acknowledge that I'm wearing it, then at least I have an argument that it wasn't theft because you knew about it and your lack of objection equaled consent.

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Can we just link to one of the other threads so that we all don't have to repeat our opinions a hundred times?

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Avenging Knute Rockne I see.

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I'd love to have a lawyer chime in on this, but my understanding is that the amount of time they've been using it isn't as important as how long Notre Dame has known about it. Otherwise small schools could steal with impunity.

I don't see any great benefit to granting the school any kind of license to use the logo. Notre Dame has every right to an exclusive use of their own property. There's an argument that spreading the mark around diminishes it.

Yep, it's called the doctrine of laches--the idea the equity aids the vigilant, not those who have slept on their rights. The focus in on whether the rights holder delayed unreasonably in enforcing their rights and whether that delay unduly prejudices the offender. Laches requires that the rights holder know or should have known about the illicit use.

There should not be a statue of limitations to enforcement--there's no justification to allow illicit users to acquire rights to intellectual property simply by using the property long enough. In real property, squatters can acquire rights under the doctrine of adverse possession, but the justification there is that if the land isn't being used by the original owner, it should go to someone who is using it. Land is scarce, and efficient use of it should be encouraged.

Notre Dame has the rights to exclude any other team from using their IP, and they have no obligation to license it, especially if licensing it diminishes its value.

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I wonder if some of these schools in my state would get in trouble.... And these are just the teams that use COLLEGE logos. I have some NBA and NFL too.

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And FooMaster is right... IDK how many Michigan/Princeton helmet ripoffs there are out there. Looking at MGHelmets.com specifically in Michigan there has to be at least 30.

 

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A high school near me uses this as their logo:

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As for this logo, and any other NFL logos, the NFL has stated that it likes to see the use of its marks by high schools, pop warner teams, etc.

Only if those schools and teams keep the same color scheme. Recolors and alterations are not allowed.

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at what point should there be a statute of limitations that would prevent a copyright holder from suing after a logo has been used for so long?

At the point where other schools stop using copyrighted material.

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A high school near me uses this as their logo:

chaminade.jpg

As for this logo, and any other NFL logos, the NFL has stated that it likes to see the use of its marks by high schools, pop warner teams, etc.

Only if those schools and teams keep the same color scheme. Recolors and alterations are not allowed.

Guess that would get into trouble all those countless "Eagles" in state that use the Philly Eagles logo, just recolored.

 

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My old high school is using the Eagles logo recolored as green and gold. They even slapped it on water tower by a major freeway. Here's their helmet next to the only one in the district with an modern original (if kinda dumb) logo (all the other districts orginal logos have been replaced with ripoff logos).

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The worst part is that they have produced plenty of talented artists among the alumni. They couldn't get some free work from them?

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at what point should there be a statute of limitations that would prevent a copyright holder from suing after a logo has been used for so long?

At the point where other schools stop using copyrighted material.

That's about the size of it.

Negative. That IS the size of it.

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