{"id":5478,"date":"2013-06-02T22:06:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T02:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=5478"},"modified":"2013-06-02T22:06:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T02:06:19","slug":"trademarks-copyrights-and-theft-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=5478","title":{"rendered":"Trademarks, Copyrights, and Theft, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, maybe the headline is stretching things just a bit, but ODU gets no points for creativity on their new logo and helmets as it seems we’ve seen that “mascot in the state outline” design somewhere before, maybe even fairly recently.<\/p>\n

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Then ODU just recently announced they’re making this their main athletic logo, including Center Court at the TED and on their helmets for football:<\/p>\n

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Look, we know ODU’s currently riding high, bigheaded fanbase is going to all go “wow, that looks amazing” the same way we did last year and never trouble themselves with any pesky sense of history or self-awareness. \u00a0To be honest, we’re still quietly pissed that they have a national platform to promote this change (and a sweet “CUSA” on that court) and an administration that is capable of realizing how even details like solid branding opportunities can be important to a program. \u00a0But seriously, don’t even try to explain it to them. \u00a0It’s just a culture of ignorant bliss – like trying to explain to a Darius Rucker “fan” that Wagon Wheel is a cheap knockoff and should not be tolerated.<\/p>\n

Of course, to continue with the analogy, that really makes us no better than the Old Crow Medicine Show in this story because the Bob Dylan originator in all of this is definitely ECU. \u00a0But hey, we’d rather share writing credits with Dylan than release anything with the elevator-music dreck that is Lady Antebellum. \u00a0And now this court design can hopefully run away with the Convo competition:<\/p>\n

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