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Apparel-maker Oakley has sued golfer Rory McIlroy and Nike, saying they breached the world’s top-ranked golfer’s existing contract with Oakley when he recently signed a new deal with Nike. According to a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Santa Ana, Calif., Oakley tried to use its “right of first refusal” to match the Nike [...]
Like all those who are accustomed to winning, the expression ‘preparation is the key to success’ will be only too familiar to Lance Armstrong. In all his years of competing however, never has this been truer than the preparation which has unquestionably been undertaken by his lawyers in advance of his forthcoming interview with Oprah [...]
In the last blog on ambush marketing I dealt in outline with the forms ambush marketing can take and touched on the range of devices that can be used to prevent it, and the way those devices have been specifically supplemented by legislation. In this blog I will touch in outline upon some of the [...]
Time and time again, despite all of the warnings and guidance given to athletes and professionals alike, we still see them using Twitter* as an open message board to vent their opinions to the entire world without having any consideration of their audience. What they haven’t yet grasped is the fact that a tweet is [...]
As the Olympic Games is now under way, with women’s football taking place even before the official opening ceremony, it seemed like a useful time to consider the problem that the event organisers face from ambush marketing, and how the media are already reporting some of the stories that are emerging. There have been a [...]
Yesterday, we saw two landmark cases as a result of misusing Twitter. The former New Zealand cricketer, Chris Cairns was awarded damages of £90,000 by the High Court over a defamatory tweet in what is considered to be the first Twitter libel case to be heard in England. Lalit Modi, tweeted in January 2010 that [...]
FrontRow Legal would like to invite you, your colleagues, friends & family to a free drop-in lunch at our new offices on Friday 23 March 2012 between 12:30 – 2:30 at The Round Foundry Media Centre, Foundry Street, Leeds, LS11 5QP. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to meet the FrontRow Legal Team on [...]
The European Court of Justice has issued a ruling in relation to copyright protection of databases that could have serious consequences for Football Dataco, the company that manages (amongst other things) the licensing of football fixture lists for the Premier League and the Football League. Each year a complicated process is undertaken to plot the [...]
“…Assange is now a household name which he needs to protect…”
“..The “rogue reporter” defence lacks strength in some areas and it remains to be seen whether the judiciary will consider it to have much bearing going forward…”
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