Do you believe NFL should profitf from charities?
By hofame
@hofame (11)
May 5, 2008 9:05pm CST
As a charity manufacturing a collectible solely for raising money for
doing good and helping other the NFL wants a licensing fees for the use of pictures of the players. Do you believe they should profit from the proceeds raised to help others. Let me know.
1 response
@rosettaresearch (1285)
• United States
6 May 08
Should they grant the license without a fee? yes, probably. Do they HAVE to insist on the license? YES. If they do not protect their trademark, they lose it.
As for pictures of the players, that is held by the Players' Association not the League. Separate entity. The Union holds the rights to the players' likenesses if there are 3 or more players in the picture. The NFL holds the rights to the NFL logos and some team stuff. The teams hold the rights to their names and logos. The players hold the rights to their individual likenesses.
This is how they make money. If they jsut give these rights away, they go broke. Then the rights are worth nothing.
Even for a charity, they have to protect their rights and the profitability of those rights. Should a compromise be worked out? Sure. It would be good publicity for the NFL. But, it is not wrong when they insist on a license fee.
