Copyright Law Update: Texas A&M Shielded from Copyright Infringement Claim

As we enter September, college football is in the air, along with all the traditions that we have come to know over the past decades. One of the most famous of those traditions - “the 12th Man” concept - belongs to Texas A&M football. This may come as a surprise to the fans of the Seattle Seahawks, but that is neither here nor there. 

It is this piece of college football lore that is the center of a recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (“Fifth Circuit”) decision in Canada Hockey LLC d/b/a Epic Sports v. Team A&M University Athletic Department, et al; (5th Cir. 2021; Docket No. 20-20503).

Read more FREE here at Tuk’s Copyright Law Reporter.