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Podcast: The Briefing by the IP Law Blog - Could a Trademark Search Have Saved ‘The Cleveland Indians’ Botched Rebrand?
The Briefing by the IP Law Blog: Could a Trademark Search Have Saved ‘The Cleveland Indians’ Botched Rebrand?
Leading in a Lonely World Podcast - Meet Michele Meyer-Shipp, the authentic Chief People and Culture Officer for Major League Baseball
Compliance Perspectives: Sign Stealing in the MLB
With 2024 underway, our team highlights 10 of the most pressing legal issues facing the media and entertainment industry this year. In 2024, media and entertainment businesses will focus on whether the longstanding tenet...more
Private equity firms, financial sponsors, and sovereign wealth funds continue to invest in global sports organizations. Financial sponsor–led investments were more prevalent at the beginning of the century in Europe and...more
A subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., Diamond Sports Group, LLC (“Diamond”) (branded as Bally Sports) which operates 19 regional sports networks that televise MLB, NHL and NBA games is inching towards bankruptcy. On...more
Where’s the line between permissible NIL deal and impermissible “pay for play” when it comes to professional teams offering NIL deals? Name, image, and likeness (NIL) agreements between collegiate student-athletes and...more
On March 10, Major League Baseball (MLB) and the MLB Players Association agreed to terms on a new collective bargaining agreement, ending a 99-day lockout that was the first official MLB work stoppage since 1994. As part of...more
Athletes and entertainers are people, too. Albeit, incredibly talented people, but deserving of the same treatment with dignity and respect as how we would want ourselves to be treated. For better or worse, sometimes their...more
We’ve all been there—that incredible moment when our favorite team is driving down the field for the go-ahead touchdown, has runners in scoring position in the bottom of the ninth inning, or has a penalty kick in the 89th...more
Professional sports leagues and their stakeholders are facing numerous challenges as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Hockey League (NHL) was nearly finished with its regular season when it shut down. Major...more
If any events served as harbingers of the oncoming halt of social life as we know it, it may well have been the abrupt, mid-March cancellations of college basketball conference tournaments and interruption of the NBA season. ...more
In the wake of Major League Baseball’s settlement of antitrust claims on the eve of trial, the central question from the lawsuit remains: are sports leagues’ exclusive broadcasting territories for live games an antitrust...more
It is one of those magical times during the year when sports fanatics can enjoy three major American sports all at the same time: the MLB playoffs are in full swing; the NFL season has finally kicked off; and the NHL saw the...more
Could the New York Yankees sell the broadcasting rights to their games to cable companies and subscribers in Mississippi? Could a Los Angeles Kings fan living on the East Coast pay to watch a crucial, late-season game live...more