After reading Madeline’s post about the NFL trying to claim they own the copyright to “Who Dat,” I happened to come across another ridiculous story about the NFL and copyright law.
This article states that if you own a TV that is larger then 55 in you could technically be violating an NFL copyright law. The law in fact does state that:
"no such audiovisual device has a diagonal screen size greater than 55 inches, and any audio portion of the performance or display is communicated by means of a total of not more than six loudspeakers."
The writer of the article looked into this and found that it was put in place to prevent people from hosting large functions and making a profit off the NFL game. If you are watching privately at home you are in the clear. Two years ago a church got in trouble by hosting a super bowl watch party where they charged people to watch the game on a big projector screen. The NFL went after them, and angered many people and church groups across the country. Yet this law is still in place, so if you were thinking about doing something similar, I would think again.
The NFL has also trademarked the words “Super Bowl” which lead advertisers to use the words “The Big Game” instead – the NFL then tried to trademark those words they had already been claimed by two ivy league universities.
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