This just has to be a joke!

[Bleed Blue]

No way!

A little copyright infringement down in Texas


I am fairly certain no one in the Washington Commanders office has authorized the usage of our logos, colours, etc for a school district in south Texas.

http://www.donnaisd.net/home/

 

[HighTechDave]

DHS stands for "Denison High School", and it should be the "YellowJackets".

no wonder,,,, lol

 

[DallasEast]

Someone should sue the school district. And where are the Native Americans? Why aren't they protesting the SD for using such an offensive logo? It's really sickening. Disgusting even.

 

[zrinkill]

It's really sickening. Disgusting even.

Esp for us Cowboy fans :laugh2:

That is ugly colors

 

[HighTechDave]

Someone should sue the school district. And where are the Native Americans? Why aren't they protesting the SD for using such an offensive logo? It's really sickening. Disgusting even.

man I'm with you. I wanted to "URP" after seeing the Logo. Anyone that wears that, should be sent to the Taliban, to be "Thrashed" with 50 lashings, then forced with eyelids taped back to watch the whole Washington Commanders football season...

 

[trickblue]

This type of stuff has been going on for years...

Donna has a decent program in the state although they are no perennial powerhouse...

I can name a dozen schools right offhand that rip-off NFL or college teams...

It's the nature of the business...

 

[Rack]

I played against Donna my Junior and Senior year in HS.



My HS mascot is "Longhorns", I never heard anything about UT complaining about it.

There's also another "Longhorns" about 45 minutes away (Hebbronville Longhorns).

 

[trickblue]

I played against Donna my Junior and Senior year in HS.



My HS mascot is "Longhorns", I never heard anything about UT complaining about it.

There's also another "Longhorns" about 45 minutes away (Hebbronville Longhorns).

Dallas W.T. White also rips the horns... and even wears burnt orange britches... (It isn't a good look)...

 

[adamknite]

My HS mascot was "The Outlaws" (like the horse not the bandit) and our colors were blue and white. Well one year our helmet logo was the Denver logo but just solid white. Then the next year we had solid blue helmets with a white stripe down the middle and numbers on the side like Alabama..... High Schools doing that kinda thing is pretty common really

 

[ghosttown cowboy]

Isn't that logo flipped on the foreskins helmet?

 

[SkinsandTerps]

My brother went to a HS in Wisconsin (for a year) and the logo was the same as the Commanders, colors yep..the same.

I think it is pretty common.

 

[cowboysfan31]

I know for a few years the Fort Stockton Panthers ripped off the Carolina Panthers' logo, colors, and everything else.

 

[silverbear]

Esp for us Cowboy fans :laugh2:

That is ugly colors

Even if I wasn't a Cowboys fan, I'd find burgundy and gold to be a hideous color combination for a football team...almost as hideous as the "creamsicle" jerseys the Bucs wore many moons ago, LOL...

 

[mmohican29]

I grew up in central NY and our HS football team had halloween colors (ummm black and orange) with the FSU seminole arrow on the helmet. The teams nickname is the Mohicans. Think old Cincy Bengals unis with no tiger stripes and the FSU helmet in orange and black.

Things started turning around for us when we went to the Syracuse Univ Shiny Orange pants with the "Cowboys style" numbers on the hips...

 

[el_chevo]

This has to be one of the sickest things I have ever witnessed...

 

[DallasCowpoke]

My HS mascot was "The Outlaws" (like the horse not the bandit)

Huh??

 

[adamknite]

Huh??

out·law

/ˈaʊtˌlɔ/Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[out-law]Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1.a lawless person or habitual criminal, esp. one who is a fugitive from the law. 2.a person, group, or thing excluded from the benefits and protection of the law. 3.a person under sentence of outlawry. 4.a person who refuses to be governed by the established rules or practices of any group; rebel; nonconformist: one of the outlaws of country music. 5.Chiefly Western U.S. a.a horse that cannot be broken; a mean, intractable horse.

 

[DallasInDC]

Someone should sue the school district. And where are the Native Americans? Why aren't they protesting the SD for using such an offensive logo? It's really sickening. Disgusting even.

I'm not a lawyer and I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn last night but suing the school district may not result in the removal of the emblem and colors. I would assume this to be the case since you see reprodcutions of team mascots and colors all the time at various high school and recreational levels. I pulled this off a copyrights basic website:

What defenses are there to copyright infringement?

The primary defense to copyright infringement is "fair use." 17 U.S.C. §107. The fair use doctrine allows the reproduction and use of work, notwithstanding the rightsof the author (17 U.S.C. §§ 106 and 106A), for limited purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use may be described as the privilege to use the copyrighted material in a reasonable manner without the owner's consent. In deciding whether a copier's actions were fair, judges will consider

1. the purpose and character of the copying (certain types of educational copying is allowed)
2. the nature of the original (originals made for commercial reasons are less protected from copying than their purely artistic counterparts)
3. the amount and substantiality of the portion copied (one may not copy the "heart" of a work without the author's permission); and
4. the effect that such copying may have on the market for the original (copying may be permitted if it is unlikely to cause economic harm the original author).
Examples of activities that may be excused as fair use include: distributing copies of a section of an article in class for educational purposes; providing a quotation in a book review; and imitating a work for the purpose of parody or social commentary.

I would assume that since the schoold disricts are not-for-profit entities and would receive zero economic gain from using the logo, it would mostlikely not result in an adverse economic impact on the team they're borrowing from. But like I said, I am not a lawyer and could be way off base here.

 

[Mr Cowboy]

http://www.bisd.us/porter/Student Activities.htm

check out the helmets of the Brownsville Porter High School Cowboys.

 

[5Stars]

Even if I wasn't a Cowboys fan, I'd find burgundy and gold to be a hideous color combination for a football team...almost as hideous as the "creamsicle" jerseys the Bucs wore many moons ago, LOL...

Mustard and BBQ sauce....

Those RedStink colors are hidious, period! After looking at ES for a few minutes, you have to leave that dump because of those colors...and the posters...