Nba copyright warning

HBO, on the other hand, decided to skip the permission step and use real NFL team logos without the expressed, written consent of the league.
Anyone who watches professional football regularly may know that the league is keen on warning others against using its trademarks without permission.

This copyrighted broadcast of the National Basketball Association may not be retransmitted, reproduced, rebroadcast, or otherwise distributed or used in any form without the express written consent of the NBA I'm coaching some kids and I want to show them some tape from the NBA but this is preventing me from doing so without legal repercussions.

“Clearances to use NBA trademarks were not sought or granted and the league objects to any unauthorized use of its intellectual property,” Mike Bass, the league’s chief communications officer, and an executive vice president, said in a press statement.

In defense of its use of the NBA trademark and Lakers trademarks, HBO could assert the same legal argument it asserted in the “Ballers” case, namely, that its use of the trademarks is necessary to convey the story and that it does not create confusion or suggest an endorsement of HBO by the NBA or the Lakers franchise.