AFL contests fan blog site - RFNews - realfooty.com.au
Will we have to start referring to our team as the one that runs out in the red and the white but not to be confused with the one with black as well?
AFL contests fan blog site - RFNews - realfooty.com.au
Will we have to start referring to our team as the one that runs out in the red and the white but not to be confused with the one with black as well?
This just shows.....again what a bunch of @@@@wits the AFL are.Originally Posted by ugg
AFL contests fan blog site - RFNews - realfooty.com.au
Will we have to start referring to our team as the one that runs out in the red and the white but not to be confused with the one with black as well?My understanding is it's not a commercial website, so the legal letter is a ridiculous avenue to go down.AFL media manager Patrick Keane said the site received the letter because they cannot use any AFL or team intellectual property.
"It's something that we regularly follow with any area, be that such as the Dimmeys case, such as websites, such as media outlets, selling AFL photographs attached to a commercial sponsor without the permission of the player concerned," Mr Keane said.
"So it's use of anything that's got an AFL logo, be it club guernsey or AFL images."
"People can do it but they can't attach any commercial gains to it," Mr Keane said
"Basically anything with an AFL logo on it, that's out concern, if it's for a commercial use.
Mr Keane said any mention of club names are permissible in an editorial sense.
"For editorial use there is no issue, but again for anything attached to commercial relationship, no," Mr Keane said.
Just how far will these dictators go?
Does God believe in Atheists?
Does God believe in Atheists?
Paranoid control freaks. Club names as intellectual property?! No doubt they'll be in touch.
Further thought: indicates a reason why we need a Commonwealth Bill of Rights, or amendments to the Constitution in the US style guaranteeing freedom of speech.
He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)
It is pathetic, especially as the lads stripped out all of the club images.
They're as much a commercial site as we are.
A good way to run a commercial business, sueing your customers. It didn't work for the music business and it's appalling that the AFL sees that as some kind of example.
The man who laughs has not yet heard the terrible news
What I don't understand is that by the AFL's admission club names can be used for "editorials". Isn't this blog heaps of editorials, one about each game? How is it different to any newspaper commenting about the game in their Monday edition?
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