1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,000 Speaker 1: Well, now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief, 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:06,120 Speaker 1: exploring legal issues in the news, and it's brought to 3 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 1: you by American Arbitration Association, International Trade or Business Dispute 4 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: Resolve Faster with the International Center for a Dispute Resolution, 5 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 1: the leader in alternative dispute resolution around the world i 6 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: c d R dot org. Today Bloomberg Laho, Student Grosso 7 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 1: and Michael Best discuss a lawsuit targeting Fox over a 8 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: video from the Super Bowl that used footage of fame 9 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 1: boxer Muhammad Ali. They speak with Chris Cootropia, a professor 10 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 1: at the University of Richmond School of Law. Why don't 11 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 1: we start by talking about what this Fox video actually was? 12 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 1: What did they do here? Well, so the video is 13 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:45,880 Speaker 1: essentially a segue of talking about kind of Ali's career 14 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 1: over time period sixties seventies up into the Olympic kind 15 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 1: of lighting of the torch, and then it finally kind 16 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 1: of segues into um, kind of the great um of 17 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl errors. And so the constant seg way 18 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: is kind of Ali or a likeness of Ali walking 19 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 1: down the tunnel like he's going to a fight in 20 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 1: his different stages of his career, and then it eventually 21 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: kind of transforms into the Packers, you know, and the Bears, um, 22 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:17,920 Speaker 1: et cetera. And Fox aired this um sometime prior to 23 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: its actual Super Bowl coverage on Super Bowl Sunday, Chris, 24 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 1: should Fox have known in this day where publicity rights 25 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: are so closely guarded that it wouldn't get away with 26 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: using actual footage of Muhammad Ali without being sued? Um So, So, 27 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 1: first of all, we don't know if they've gotten away 28 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: with it yet or not, because we just have a 29 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: complaint being filed. But certainly, um, you can see different 30 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 1: interests um in that someone like Muhammad Ali um or 31 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 1: let's say Michael Jordan's is really concerned about the ability 32 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 1: to control and commercialize their persona. But on the flip side, 33 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 1: if I'm someone like Fox that wants to be able 34 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 1: to have flexibility with different types of programming, um Uh, 35 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 1: the interest don't align. So maybe Fox and I don't know, 36 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: Maybe Fox took kind of a calculated risk in the 37 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: sense of saying, you know, there's a possibility of acclaim. 38 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 1: Maybe Ali's family or enterprises wasn't willing to fix on 39 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 1: a certain price, and maybe Fox would like to start 40 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:19,080 Speaker 1: a trend to say that it can do certain things 41 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 1: like this, that this is okay. There might be things 42 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:23,639 Speaker 1: that are okay, but this is okay, and so they 43 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 1: kind of calculatedly said, you know what, We're gonna do 44 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 1: this and try to see if it's six. As Chris 45 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: krew Tropie, professor at the University of Richmond School of Loss, 46 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: speaking at the Bloomberg Student Grosso and Michael Best, you 47 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: can listen to Bloomberg Law weekdays at one pm Wall 48 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: Street Time here on Bloomberg Radio Now. Among the top 49 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: legal stories from Bloomberg Law. In New Jersey, the bribery 50 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:47,800 Speaker 1: case against Democratic Senator Robert Menendez may be in trouble. 51 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: A federal judge suggests he may dismiss the heart of 52 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: the case, citing a Supreme Court ruling that narrowed the 53 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: definition of public corruption. 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