Honey Badger Don't Care... Unless You're Cheering On A College Player With That Nickname
from the intellectual-property-gone-mad dept
Not too long ago, we wrote about how lots of fans of (then) Kentucky basketball player Anthony Davis were creating and buying bootleg merchandise based on the phrase "fear the brow!" which is associated with him because of his prominent unibrow. Of course, after graduating and turning pro, Davis immediately sought the trademark on the phrase, so that only he could profit from it. But now, Stephan Kinsella points us to another college athlete for whom "bootleg" apparel is apparently an issue. LSU football player Tyrann Mathieu has been nicknamed "Honey Badger" after this famous memetastic YouTube video about how "Honey Badger don't care."Now, much of this is because of completely asinine NCAA rules against selling products that advertise student athletes (even without their knowledge or permission). But, the overall concept seems even more ridiculous when you realize that the whole Honey Badger meme comes from somewhere else entirely. Is it really that wrong that fans of Mathieu want to celebrate a player they like?
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Filed Under: honey badger, ncaa rules, trademark, tyrann mathieu
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Wonder how his being kicked off the team affects this
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Childish
Grow up people.
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This is just overreach by the NCAA
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> patent. It is the restatment of facts. What charges
> could they use to sue? NCAA regulations?
Just what I was thinking. NCAA regs have no force of law and don't bind anyone other than the colleges that voluntarily agree to abide by them.
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sue colleges?
After all I'm sure they advertise their courses including comments on current star student athletes. Come study at LSU with Tyrann Mathieu!
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The influence of sports
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