Geminipremium – Pittsburgh Steelers Bradshaw Harris Swann Stallworth Bleier Shirt

This almost never comes up. Because copyright only protects “complete works fixed to media”. And a name, a slogan, or a simplistic design does not have copyright protection. The name Adidas, the Pittsburgh Steelers Bradshaw Harris Swann Stallworth Bleier Shirt and I love this slogan “Just Do It”, or the Reebok logo of three crossing arcs; none of these have copyright protection. So really, we are just talking about elaborate logo designs, which might also have copyright as a full “work of art”. Again, that’s a minority of logo designs. Yes, you can trademark that. You cannot use your trademark to overrun someone else’s copyright ownership, though. Steal someone’s copyright protected logo and try to put it on your products, you will get sued for each product you ship. Doesn’t matter that you registered that logo as a trademark. The sad fact about Trademarks is unless they get challenged before being approved, they tend to get approved without enough research being done.