Today’s post is an article from Allison Melangton, President of the Indiana Sports Corporation. Allison describes better than anyone how sports can provide vital connections in a community, between and among fans and also those less directly connected with sports.  Read on (and keep a tissue handy).  –Amie   ** Indiana Sports Corp sends Allison’s [...]

Since its initial event in late 2011, the founders of Sports Circle Indy have been hard at work putting together a Board of Directors and organizing member events for the year.  The Board consists of Ken Ungar (U/S Sports Advisors), Amie Peele Carter (Faegre Baker Daniels), Ralph Reiff (St. Vincent Sports Performance), Aron McGuire (USA [...]

Tatttoo artist S. Victor Whitmill (Whitmill) tried to stop Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. (WB) from releasing the film The Hangover II last weekend.  Whitmill claimed that WB’s use of the tattoo Whitmill allegedly created for the first Hangover film in this new release violated his copyright in the tattoo. Although the U.S. District Court for [...]

I wrote an article recently for the Sports Litigation Alert about secondary branding in sports. Here is an excerpt from the article, titled What Every Pro Athlete can Learn from Lady Gaga: the Importance of Secondary Branding: Lady Gaga’s lyrics and commentary are designed to eradicate the feeling of marginalization that even the most typical and privileged suburbanite [...]