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Super League or Superbad? An analysis of the contractual implications for clubs and players
Posted: 21/04/2021
n a whirlwind 72 hour period, six Premier League clubs have gone from announcing their involvement in a breakaway European Super League (ESL), in which they were ‘founder members’, to unanimously withdrawing from the league. The ESL caught the attention of the world’s media, policy makers and football supporters...…>>
Jaguar C-Type sports car attracts copyright protection as a work of applied art and puts the brakes on replica car manufacturer
Posted: 23/03/2021
The Swedish Patent and Market Court recently held that the Jaguar C-Type sports car (which was designed in the UK in 1951) attracts copyright protection in Sweden as a work of applied art and that such copyright (belonging to Jaguar Land Rover Ltd) had been infringed by replica cars produced by the Swedish company Creare Form AB...…>>
Leicestershire Live apologises to former Leicester City and Watford manager Nigel Pearson
Posted: 30/10/2020
Jeremy Clarke Williams, head of reputation management and privacy at Penningtons Manches Cooper, has secured an apology from Reach plc (publisher of the Leicester Mercury and its Leicestershire Live website) on behalf of Nigel Pearson, the football manager whose career has included stints at Leicester City and Watford......>>
Back of the net: Messi scores definitive victory in a nine-year legal dispute over his trade mark
Posted: 28/09/2020
We wrote previously about Lionel Messi's success against Massi, the famous Spanish cycling brand, back in 2018, when the General Court of the European Union ruled that the world-famous footballer could finally register his name as a trade mark. The decision came after a lengthy dispute in which Massi opposed the trade mark application...…>>
Football club 2 – 0 Commercial rights intermediary (and a lesson on disclosure)
Posted: 16/09/2020
His Honour Judge Pelling QC, sitting as a High Court judge, handed down judgment on 14 September 2020 in an interesting claim brought against Liverpool Football Club & Athletic Group Limited (Liverpool) by Winlink Marketing Limited (WML). WML is an intermediary specialising in introducing sports rights holders……>>

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