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Saracens salary cap breach: what happens next?
Posted: 07/11/2019
From international to domestic, rugby is back in the headlines as Saracens Rugby Club was fined £5.36 million and docked 35 points in the Premiership for breaching the Premiership Rugby Salary Cap......>>
Is ‘Liverpool’ bigger than Liverpool Football Club?
Posted: 28/10/2019
In June 2019, it was reported that Liverpool Football Club wanted to register ‘LIVERPOOL’ as a UK trade mark for a range of football related goods and services......>>
Whyte Bikes v Rich Energy - lessons from the Haas F1 Team sponsor’s copyright dispute
Posted: 30/09/2019
On 14 May 2019, Judge Melissa Clarke handed down her judgment in a copyright dispute between ATB Sales Limited (trading as Whyte Bikes) and Rich Energy Limited, energy drink producer and title sponsor of the Haas Formula One Team, concerning the two stag logos depicted below.
Making money out of e-sports opportunities
Posted: 21/08/2019
The landscape of modern sport has dramatically shifted over the past 20 years as the desire for exciting, fast-paced entertainment spectacles has increased exponentially......
Sports law – a practical alphabet
Posted: 08/07/2019
It’s all to play for as Richard Marshall and Oliver Cooke run through an (almost) A to Z of sports law......>>

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