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ugg
4th May 2009, 02:23 PM
AFL contests fan blog site - RFNews - realfooty.com.au (http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/rfnews/afl-contests-fan-blog-site/2009/05/04/1241289081053.html)

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? :eek:
goswannie14
4th May 2009, 02:31 PM
AFL contests fan blog site - RFNews - realfooty.com.au (http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/rfnews/afl-contests-fan-blog-site/2009/05/04/1241289081053.html)

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? :eek:This just shows.....again what a bunch of @@@@wits the AFL are.
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.
My understanding is it's not a commercial website, so the legal letter is a ridiculous avenue to go down.

Just how far will these dictators go?
goswannie14
4th May 2009, 02:39 PM
Here is what "Contested Footy" have to say about it. (http://www.contestedfooty.com/2009/05/what-happened-to-contestedfooty.html)
dimelb
4th May 2009, 02:58 PM
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.
ShockOfHair
4th May 2009, 04:36 PM
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.
laughingnome
4th May 2009, 05:28 PM
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?
dimelb
4th May 2009, 07:57 PM
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?
We're better informed. :p
ScottH
4th May 2009, 09:03 PM
I read that article with great interest over the weekend.
ROK Lobster
4th May 2009, 09:14 PM
I read that article with great interest over the weekend.Hope you own the copyright to that cup in your avatar.
ScottH
4th May 2009, 09:24 PM
Hope you own the copyright to that cup in your avatar.

Yes, as much as the person in yours.

I at least own the photo of the cup, ATM. :cool:
ROK Lobster
4th May 2009, 09:27 PM
Yes, as much as the person in yours.

I at least own the photo of the cup, ATM. :cool:
I am not sure anyone owns the rights to the images of administrators.
ScottH
4th May 2009, 09:30 PM
I am not sure anyone owns the rights to the images of administrators.

Well, like everything else, I bet my wife does.
573v30
4th May 2009, 10:13 PM
Didn't these dickheads (the AFL) shut down a Hawks forum a couple of years ago because they had an AFL logo on their home page? :mad: :rolleyes:
Big Al
4th May 2009, 11:05 PM
The AFL should copyright he words "pedantic wankers" because that's what most people will be calling them.
Frog
5th May 2009, 01:45 AM
IMHO it is really only a matter of time before most of us are shut down - including RWO - Enjoy it while it lasts.
ShockOfHair
5th May 2009, 01:55 AM
Isn't the Leo Barry case supposed to decide on some of these issues? The case is over who owns the image of Leo's grand final mark -- an argument between the AFL and media companies.

Possibly the current action has been taken with that issue in mind, as a reminder to media outlets that they report on AFL only by the grace and favour of the league.

Any copyright lawyers out there?
laughingnome
5th May 2009, 02:06 AM
The AFL should copyright he words "pedantic wankers" because that's what most people will be calling them.

You forgot "kowtow to Collingwood".
ScottH
5th May 2009, 07:22 AM
IMHO it is really only a matter of time before most of us are shut down - including RWO - Enjoy it while it lasts.

No, that will never happen.
We'll just be talking about Team A who beat Team D, and the player with the bald head played reaaly well and kicked 5 goals, against the guy with the moptop. And that big bloke in the middle, is a really big bloke.

Who's going to the manicured paddock to watch the strange shaped plaything being thumped around by the guys who like to wear the same coloured outfits against the other guys in the other colouerd outfits?