By: derKase

derKase — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:14:52 +0000

The uncle ripped off the design from the 94th Fighter Squadron emblem made famous by Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker in WWI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/94th_Fighter_Squadron

If anybody, the USAF should be suing.

By: Bob Lipton

Bob Lipton — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:14:02 +0000

And no one noticed for eighty-five years?

Bob

By: Pam

Pam — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 22:51:17 +0000

Unpublished work. Complaint here.

By: Dan T.

Dan T. — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 20:05:09 +0000

None of the articles on this case are clear about exactly what sort of legal claim is being made. The only one I can think of that might make any sense would be a copyright extension-term reclamation, as permitted by the law at various points in the lifespan of a copyright, in which the original creator of something revokes an earlier license of the copyright to somebody else. One of the times when this can happen is at the 75th year of a pre-1978 copyright, when the extended 20 year term added in a subsequent law would kick in; that would be right about now for a 1936 copyright. This would, however, depend on the author having a valid copyright that began in 1936 and remains in effect, and a valid assignment of copyright to the Yankees; I gather the team is denying the artist ever had those rights in the first place, and in the absence of a copyright registration I’m not sure they’d exist for a copyright from the era when such formalities were required. On the other hand, it is claimed that the artist was a non-American at the time, and there are special provisions as a result of treaty obligations that have allowed the restoration of copyrights on foreign works that had lapsed. So it could get complicated.

By: Ron Coleman

Ron Coleman — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:55:08 +0000

Preposterous! Proof or otherwise.

There ought to be a law.

Comments on: Claim: NY Yankee top hat logo copies her uncle’s 1936 design

By: derKase

By: Bob Lipton

By: Pam

By: Dan T.

By: Ron Coleman