> As far as I know, there is no federal law's governing logo useage as it
pertains
> to the Internet.  But, as a frequent browser of the Internet and as
> Webmaster of my own college hockey site, I can tell you that many
> fan-operated unofficial web pages have school (and league) logos on them
> and you don't hear much about them.  This would suggest that the "owners"
> of the logos don't have any legal ground to stand on when it comes to
> forcing independent pages to take the logos off.
 
They probably do have a leg to stand on, but they just choose not to.
 
> It's sounds absurd to
> think that a college athletic department would waste time pursuing legal
> action against non-profit, fan-operated web sites over a school logo.
> But I guess it is an absurd world! :)
 
That's the bigger point.  They can in they want to, but why want to?
 
AW
 
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