[NU Sports] NU on TV

[Roy Lamberton]

Not a Legal Guru, but Law and Order has traditionally avoided any controversy in its scripts.
The producer, Wolfe?, made a comment early in the show's life about the number of "white
defendants" on the show, that white guys don't cry discrimination when they are portrayed as
criminals. They have since added more diversity but they still don't mirror all the cases in NY
that they could.

I know they never portray someone working for a real company. Very few corporations will allow
you to use their name in a script because the writers won't submit scripts to the corporate
advisor for "corrections."

rsl



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-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Dennis W.
Brandt
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 9:33 AM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] NU on TV

Maybe one of our legal gurus can respond to this.

Being legally unable to use the likeness of a university, particularly a public university, or
even to mention its name, is a concept one I do not understand.  Law & Order, for example, is
always picking up dead bodies at the fictional Hudson University rather than N.Y.U., St. John's,
or Columbia yet unhesitatingly show and discuss buildings such as the Empire State or Chrysler.
Showing respect to a university or not disrupting their routine with unapproved on-campus
filming is one thing.  But to require permission even to mention them or use images?  The law
certainly does not demand permission to display images of public individuals.
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