Will your big-screen Super Bowl party violate copyright law?

pretty sure we had a discussion about this last year. basically you dont have anything to worry about unless youre a business... or a church.
 
Most interesting part at the end:

The led many advertisers to promote sales and special offers tied to "the Big Game" instead. So, in 2006, the NFL also filed for a trademark on "the Big Game." It backed off when Stanford and Cal objected; the two universities had called their own annual football game "the Big Game" for a hundred years already.
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Trying to copyright "the Big Game"? I see the NFL copyright lawyers are interested in vaulting right past corporatism and into Orwellian territory.
 
This is why I do not bother watching sports on TV, especially NFL. Who the fuck gives them the right to tell me I cannot watch the superbowl on my 58 inch plasma in 5.1 surround sound?
 
[quote name='ITDEFX']This is why I do not bother watching sports on TV, especially NFL. Who the fuck gives them the right to tell me I cannot watch the superbowl on my 58 inch plasma in 5.1 surround sound?[/QUOTE]

That is the dumbest thing I have ever read. You don't watch sports because of some completely arbitrary law that would never be enforced on someone watching a game in their own home?
 
It's just one of the more obvious markers that the baseline Copyright Act was passed in the 70's. The logic at the time was probably that there was no way anyone would have a 55+ inch screen in a public place/business/somewhere admission being is charged unless their intent was to profit from the broadcast at the expense of the copyright holder.

There's all sorts of other anachronistic crap in there that's still good law if you're bored enough to look through it.

[quote name='camoor']Trying to copyright "the Big Game"? I see the NFL copyright lawyers are interested in vaulting right past corporatism and into Orwellian territory.[/QUOTE]

Trademarks and copyrights are not the same thing.
 
This "story" pops up every year. Usually when some church gets in trouble because they, god forbid (no pun intended), try to have a Super Bowl party for their flock, or whatever you call them.

fuck the NFL. fuck them in the ass. Hard. With a pinecone.
 
I'd say something along the lines of what I'd say to the RIAA and MPAA. fuck you... but since I don't give a flying fuck about football, whatever.
 
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