AFL contests fan blog site

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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?

[goswannie14]

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.

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]

Here is what "Contested Footy" have to say about it.

[dimelb]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[ScottH]

I read that article with great interest over the weekend.

[ROK Lobster]

I read that article with great interest over the weekend.

Hope you own the copyright to that cup in your avatar.

[ScottH]

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.

[ROK Lobster]

Yes, as much as the person in yours.

I at least own the photo of the cup, ATM.

I am not sure anyone owns the rights to the images of administrators.

[ScottH]

I am not sure anyone owns the rights to the images of administrators.

Well, like everything else, I bet my wife does.

[573v30]

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?

[Big Al]

The AFL should copyright he words "pedantic wankers" because that's what most people will be calling them.

[Frog]

IMHO it is really only a matter of time before most of us are shut down - including RWO - Enjoy it while it lasts.