He said it. He should be the one who gets anything for it becoming a thing.
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He said it. He should be the one who gets anything for it becoming a thing.
Does David Bowie's estate have any say in the matter? LOL!
I agree that if it gets trademarked, Zion should be the guy to profit and control that trademark.
I just think it's absurd that a common, 2 word phrase that's been in use for decades and decades and decades (probably even hundreds of years) can become the intellectual property of an individual.
Basketball.
I mean, Zion is hardly the first person to ever say that phrase in this sort of context.
But that doesn't matter.
Yeah. 100 words of poetry......20 words....I'm not sure where exactly I draw the line....I just know that a two word combination that has been used for centuries, all kinds of sporting and action movie monikers, and even, as pointed out, a very famous Bowie song should never be allowed to be copyrighted.
But really, though. Like. If this goes through, some 8th grade kid could write on a poster board "Let's Dance" while he's asking a girl out and Zion's legal team can show up and be like "not in my house"?
A senior nursing home is hosting a salsa dance night themed "let's dance" and the Zion legal team starts asking for royalties?
This is why I club baby seals.
Last edited by msusousaphone; 07-18-2019 at 10:03 PM.
BI, Zion, and CJ had a net rating of +3 when on the court together. BI and Zion had a +13.4, BI and CJ had a +13.2, Zion and CJ was just +5.4.
BI and Zion worked. BI and CJ worked. It was CJ and Zion and all three together that didn't work.
In fairness, I'm pretty sure that no court would ever actually enforce payment on an 8th grader for writing ''Let's Dance'' on a poster board.
I'm pretty sure, and again, not super up on U.S. intellectual property laws so I could be wrong, trademarking for slogans and images and stuff only really becomes legally enforceable if the infringee (if that's even a word) could plausibly be confused for the original (in case of things which are nigh-on-identical) or in cases of marketing and profiting. I'm fairly sure that's how it works in the UK, anyway. That is, if you just used the slogan in general, you wouldn't be in trouble, but if you used the slogan to sell basketball shoes, there would be a reasonable expectation from the customer to assume that said shoes had a connection to Zion, and would therefore infringe the trademark. Or if you used it as the tagline to Space Jam 2. That kind of thing.
Still ridiculous. But no 83 year olds will be hit with lawsuits for salsa night.
You wanna know a great way to ruin something? Bring money into the equation.
Every.Damn.Time.
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