Quote Originally Posted by TheBeast View Post
I don't see why Miami would want to go after a high school that wanted to use a similar U anyway. That's really a way to disenfranchise and tick off possible recruits, especially from a school that has produced two players that they would go after. I can see it from another college team but not a high school.
It's not a thing about offending a HS--it's a thing about copyright law. Miami has that split-U copyrighted. If it is printed on any HS apparel and sold, and it's obvious that a copyright has been infringed on, then they'll take legal action. That's the whole reason why they copyright it (just like all college do w/their logos) so either a) you have to get permission or b) you don't make money off of their property. I will stress too that IF they ask UM for permission and get it, there's not a problem at all.

And it's not just Miami--FSU has had copyright claims against schools before. UVA-Charlottesville pushed for UVA-Wise's latest logo change on the basis of copyright infringement.

It's all moot at this point though--we haven't seen what Union's "U" looks like yet. It may be far removed from what Miami's copyrighted logo looks like.

It's the same premise as if one of the new schools wanted to call themselves something like "Vista Trails" or something, and decided they wanted to use VT's logo, just w/different colors. Don't think for a second that VT wouldn't claim copyright infringement and get that stopped. It's a business decision on their part...nothing personal.