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The Cleveland Indians have become the Cleveland Guardians
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 8:22 am
by Vandal
Known as the Indians since 1915, Cleveland's Major League Baseball team will next be called the Guardians.
The ballclub announced the name change Friday with a video on Twitter narrated by actor Tom Hanks, ending months of internal discussions triggered by a national reckoning by institutions and teams to permanently drop logos and names considered racist.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/318 ... -guardians
Re: The Cleveland Indians have become the Cleveland Guardians
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 9:24 am
by silverscreenselect
I hope they get this guy for the team mascot next year:
Re: The Cleveland Indians have become the Cleveland Guardians
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 9:40 am
by BackInTex
silverscreenselect wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 9:24 am
I hope they get this guy for the team mascot next year:
And only play songs from Quill's mom's mix tape as walk up music.
Re: The Cleveland Indians have become the Cleveland Guardians
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 3:21 pm
by Bob78164
I'll pick this nit. Since the name change won't take effect until the end of the season, I think a more accurate headline will say that the Indians "will become" the Guardians. --Bob
Re: The Cleveland Indians have become the Cleveland Guardians
Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2021 2:48 pm
by SpacemanSpiff
silverscreenselect wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 9:24 am
I hope they get this guy for the team mascot next year:
Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn has basically said the same thing.
Re: The Cleveland Indians have become the Cleveland Guardians
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2021 4:46 pm
by ghostjmf
Some other entity has already copywritten (or whatever) the name
Re: The Cleveland Indians have become the Cleveland Guardians
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2021 5:22 pm
by Bob Juch
ghostjmf wrote: ↑Sat Aug 07, 2021 4:46 pm
Some other entity has already copywritten (or whatever) the name
That'd be a trademark. What name are you writing about?
Re: The Cleveland Indians have become the Cleveland Guardians
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2021 6:21 pm
by silverscreenselect
Bob Juch wrote: ↑Sat Aug 07, 2021 5:22 pm
ghostjmf wrote: ↑Sat Aug 07, 2021 4:46 pm
Some other entity has already copywritten (or whatever) the name
That'd be a trademark. What name are you writing about?
A roller derby team in Cleveland filed a trademark application for "Cleveland Guardians" a few days after the Indians made their announcement. The roller derby team has been in existence since 2014 and has their own website and plays games outside the state of Ohio and has a social media presence.
Bob ###s is the resident expert on trademark law and can comment on this, but it seems to me as if the Indian/Guardians should have done a better job of searching before they made their announcement.
https://www.sportico.com/law/analysis/2 ... 234636003/
Re: The Cleveland Indians have become the Cleveland Guardians
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2021 9:19 pm
by Bob Juch
silverscreenselect wrote: ↑Sat Aug 07, 2021 6:21 pm
Bob Juch wrote: ↑Sat Aug 07, 2021 5:22 pm
ghostjmf wrote: ↑Sat Aug 07, 2021 4:46 pm
Some other entity has already copywritten (or whatever) the name
That'd be a trademark. What name are you writing about?
A roller derby team in Cleveland filed a trademark application for "Cleveland Guardians" a few days after the Indians made their announcement. The roller derby team has been in existence since 2014 and has their own website and plays games outside the state of Ohio and has a social media presence.
Bob ###s is the resident expert on trademark law and can comment on this, but it seems to me as if the Indian/Guardians should have done a better job of searching before they made their announcement.
https://www.sportico.com/law/analysis/2 ... 234636003/
Yep!
When I worked in Boise, my employer paid a considerable amount of money to a company to come up with two of those high-tech-sounding names for our two divisions. When I saw them, I immediately noticed that one was the same as another software company. When I searched for the other (pre-Google) I found another software company with a very similar name. The owner abandoned his quest.
Re: The Cleveland Indians have become the Cleveland Guardians
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2021 10:23 pm
by BackInTex
They should have named them the Cleveland Engines.
Come on. You know you laughed.
Re: The Cleveland Indians have become the Cleveland Guardians
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2021 1:08 am
by Bob78164
silverscreenselect wrote: ↑Sat Aug 07, 2021 6:21 pm
Bob Juch wrote: ↑Sat Aug 07, 2021 5:22 pm
ghostjmf wrote: ↑Sat Aug 07, 2021 4:46 pm
Some other entity has already copywritten (or whatever) the name
That'd be a trademark. What name are you writing about?
A roller derby team in Cleveland filed a trademark application for "Cleveland Guardians" a few days after the Indians made their announcement. The roller derby team has been in existence since 2014 and has their own website and plays games outside the state of Ohio and has a social media presence.
Bob ###s is the resident expert on trademark law and can comment on this, but it seems to me as if the Indian/Guardians should have done a better job of searching before they made their announcement.
https://www.sportico.com/law/analysis/2 ... 234636003/
Area of use matters too. There used to be two teams known as the St. Louis Cardinals and two teams known as the New York Giants. My understanding is that the NFL team still answers its phone, “New York football Giants.” —Bob
Re: The Cleveland Indians have become the Cleveland Guardians
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2021 6:45 am
by Pastor Fireball
They should have renamed themselves the Cleveland Steamers (and I don't mean a train).