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Intellectual Property Event at IU McKinney Explores Copyright and Soccer
03/30/2016
The Center for Intellectual Property Law and Innovation at IU McKinney dealt with the topic “Laws of the Game: Who Owns Soccer?” during the March 29 Distinguished Lecture Series event. Professor Michael J. Madison, Faculty Director of the Innovation Practice Institute at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, presented the lecture in the Wynne Courtroom at Inlow Hall.
“Soccer is one of the largest and broadest cultural phenomena on the planet, but IP law touches it only here and there,” Professor Madison said. He grew up playing the sport in Silicon Valley. “In part, I take a novel, 360-degree look at a sport that I have played, coached, and watched for almost 50 years and that is reaching ever-greater levels of popularity in the U.S.” One of the American Youth Soccer Organization leagues in his hometown is named for his father, James R. Madison, who at age 85 still referees and coaches the sport.
In the photo from left are Professor Gerard Magliocca, who introduced the speaker, and Professor Madison.
