Numlock News: August 12, 2021 • Pizza, Dolphins, The Phillie Phanatic
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By Walt Hickey Phanatic The most compelling litigation in America right now is the phantastic phight over the Phillie Phanatic, the mascot of the Philadelphia Phillies. For the past two years, the team and the original design firm of the Phanatic — Harrison/Erickson — have been wrestling over the rights to the beastie. Harrison/Erickson registered the Phanatic as an “artistic sculpture” in an attempt to get the rights back to the monster, the Phillies then made an altered version to get some legal distance, and the case veered into copyright termination territory. Naturally, Hollywood has begun to perk up because, oh dang, this might affect
Numlock News: August 12, 2021 • Pizza, Dolphins, The Phillie Phanatic
Numlock News: August 12, 2021 • Pizza…
Numlock News: August 12, 2021 • Pizza, Dolphins, The Phillie Phanatic
By Walt Hickey Phanatic The most compelling litigation in America right now is the phantastic phight over the Phillie Phanatic, the mascot of the Philadelphia Phillies. For the past two years, the team and the original design firm of the Phanatic — Harrison/Erickson — have been wrestling over the rights to the beastie. Harrison/Erickson registered the Phanatic as an “artistic sculpture” in an attempt to get the rights back to the monster, the Phillies then made an altered version to get some legal distance, and the case veered into copyright termination territory. Naturally, Hollywood has begun to perk up because, oh dang, this might affect