{"id":3544,"date":"2008-12-26T10:24:06","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T18:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2008-12-26T10:24:10","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T18:24:10","slug":"the-espn-x-quiksilver-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3544","title":{"rendered":"The ESPN x Quiksilver Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/quikx2-tm.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/quikx2-tm.jpg','popup','width=200,height=238,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/quikx2-tm-tm.jpg\" height=\"119\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Quikx2-Tm\" \/><\/a>In May, 2008 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=796\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN sued Quiksilver<\/a><\/strong> for copyright infringement on the letter &#8220;X,&#8221; then a month later <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2563\" target=\"_blank\">Quiksilver sued ESPN<\/a><\/strong> for the same thing claiming they had been using the X since 1994. Now, according to a story in the LA Times ESPN has settled the lawsuit with Quiksilver.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Walt Disney Co.&#8217;s ESPN network settled a lawsuit by clothing maker Quiksilver Inc. over the cable channel&#8217;s logo for the international X Games competition. . . . The companies didn&#8217;t disclose the details of the settlement in papers filed jointly Monday in federal court in New York.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wonder if the settlement included any &#8220;free advertising?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-quiksilver25-2008dec25,0,2209869.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May, 2008 ESPN sued Quiksilver for copyright infringement on the letter &#8220;X,&#8221; then a month later Quiksilver sued ESPN for the same thing claiming they had been using the X since 1994. Now, according to a story in the LA Times ESPN has settled the lawsuit with Quiksilver. Walt Disney Co.&#8217;s ESPN network settled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3545,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions\/3545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}