Watch Out Fight Promoters! the UFC will sue for using certain letters of the Alphabet.
Here we have an upcoming fight organization, the UCFC (Ultimate Cage Fighting Challenge), which contributes to the sport monumentally through giving Pittsburgh their first ever MMA event. Although the event was a measurable success, their celebration was short lived as the monopolizing MMA giant, the Ultimate Fighting Championship, dropped threats of a copyright infringement claim.
The UFC Vice President of Regulatory Affairs ranted to MMA Junkie, "We're looking at that right now, and I'll say that to the world. It's too close to our initials, to close to our whole way of doing business."
Is it just me or is this a bit over the edge? When there are a thousand promotions out there that all somehow involve the words fighting, ultimate, cage, challenge, championship, and the like, it's hard to find originality in your promotion's title.
You can argue that the UCFC models the Ultimate Fighting Championship on a smaller scale while being by no means original, but from a legal standpoint, the UFC has no leverage. The bottom line is that while it may look like the UFC, and smell like the UFC, it's still not the UFC.
It's just another hasty act of aggression in a series of similar trends from the corporation. Ban the sponsors of which the fighters rely on, disallow use of the fighter names, and cut off oxygen in the infancy of a competitor.
Right or wrong? That's not for me to decide. But if it were up to me, i'd scratch the lawsuit.
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