Professional Sports
The first professional sports league in the US was created for this sport.
What is baseball?
What are duty, breach, causation, and damages?
The words that make up NIL.
What are name, image, and likeness?
A distinctive mark, or motto affixed to goods so that an organization may be identified on the market.
What is a trademark?
Relationship created when “one acts primarily for the benefit of another.”
What is a fiduciary relationship?
The general rule that courts apply when considering an action taken by a professional sports league commissioner.
What is whether he/she “Act in Best Interest of the Game”?
A co-participant's responsibility to others under the limited duty rule.
What is not to engage in intentional or reckless conduct that increases the risks inherent in a sport?
The name of the current primary case involving NIL.
What is House vs. NCAA?
A contract permitting the use of a trademark or copyright for certain purposes.
What is a license?
The two areas of law that are related to the athlete-agent relationship.
What are contract and agency law?
The sport exempted from Section 1 of the Sherman Act.
What is Major League Baseball?
A university's special duty under law to provide medical treatment to opposing team's players.
What is none?
An organization that pools funds from boosters, fans, and other donors to compensate student-athletes for their NIL.
What is a collective?
Advertising practice by a business other than an official sponsor seeking to create an association with a sports event without using its name or trademarks?
What is ambush marketing?
The three duties that an agent owes an athlete client.
What are a duty of loyalty, good faith and fair dealing?
The two requirements to establish a violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act.
What are concerted action and an unreasonable restraint of trade?
The standard of care for sports medicine personnel.
What is the reasonably prudent professional standard related to their higher level of training and certification?
The name of the federal law that addresses NIL.
What is none?
The only expressions covered by the Copyright Act of 1976.
What are “original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression?”
NFL rule requiring teams to interview minority candidates for head coaching and front office positions.
What is the Rooney Rule?
The two issues addressed by Section 2 of the Sherman Act.
What are monopolization and attempted monopolization?
The athlete’s responsibility duty to use reasonable care to protect the athlete’s own health/safety.
What is an athlete's contributory negligence?
The maximum percentage that universities can distribute to student-athletes from athletic revenue.
What is 22%?
The only thing that is copyrightable related to a sport event?
What is the broadcast of a sports event?
The two approaches taken by NCAA and professional sports teams regarding racially stereotyped mascots.
What are NCAA ban on "hostile/abusive racial and ethnic mascots" vs. pro sports effort to address Native American mascots on club-by-club basis?