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On May 14, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association that the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (“PASPA”) violated the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and thus the U.S. government may not use PASPA to prevent states from legalizing commercial sports gambling. In anticipation of this ruling, four U.S. states have already passed new laws to legalize and regulate sports gambling. Meanwhile, fifteen states currently have sports gambling bills that are pending before their state legislatures.In many instances, these new sports gambling laws would include the payment of a “tax” or “royalty” that transfers some gambling-related revenues from the newly licensed sports-gambling operators to U.S. commercial sports leagues. These payments, which have sometimes been described as “integrity fees,” are explained by state legislators as arising from the purported use of commercial sports leagues' intellectual property rights in state-sponsored sports gambling. Nevertheless, the claim that state-sponsored sports gambling would infringe upon commercial sports leagues' intellectual property rights is, in earnest, dubious.This article explains that state-sponsored sports gambling is unlikely to infringe upon the intellectual property rights of U.S. commercial sports leagues, and thus there is no bona fide reason for state legislatures to mandate the payment of “integrity fees” from state-licensed sports-gambling operators to the U.S. commercial sports leagues. Part I of this article explores how federal intellectual property laws (patent, copyright and trademark) apply, if at all, in the context of state-sponsored sports gambling. Part II then looks at how two additional state intellectual property laws (the “right of publicity” and the “hot news” doctrine) would apply, if at all, in this same context
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In: 115 NYU Journal of Law & Business 1 (2018)
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments June 27, 2018 erstellt
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