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9/11/09, 12:48 pm

Legal Question


I'm a volunteer coach for a youth football team in Tampa, Florida. I created a logo to be used for the team on their letterhead, shirts, website, etc. The logo was created by using Photoshop and some clipart that I found online, also I used the Rattler head from FAMU (Florida A & M).

I also created a modified version of the original logo to be used on our coaches shirts as well.

We emailed the logo that we wanted to the company that made our shirts. We received the shirts and the company was paid for their troubles.

The problem is that a few weeks later at a game I saw another team with the exact same logo on their coaches shirts as well. The only difference was the text. Our had our team name and the other team had their name on it. Outside of that, it was an exact copy of what I created. I tried reaching out to the company that did our shirts asking how or why this happened. To this date I have not received an answer.

What are my options?

I did not copyright the logo but I do have proof that I am the creator of the logo.


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