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14b) What's all this flap about registering tournaments and license fees? (College Bowl)




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This article is from the College Bowl FAQ, by George Atendido aten0001@tc.umn.edu with numerous contributions by others.

14b) What's all this flap about registering tournaments and license fees? (College Bowl)

CBI holds copyrights and/or trademarks on many items, such as the name
"College Bowl", their official rules and scoresheets, their questions,
and certain phrases like "Varsity Sport of the Mind." To use any of
these, or any other bits of CBI's intellectual property in connection
with an invitational tournament, you must negotiate a license contract
with CBI beforehand. The typical fee is $10/team participating in a
tourney that charges an entry fee, and $5/team participating at a tourney
that doesn't charge an entry fee.

ACF does not charge schools a fee to use its rules or format, and has
claimed that tourneys that use none of CBI's intellectual property are
not subject to any license fees. A position paper on the subject (written
by Jim Dendy, Vishnu Jejjala, and Ramesh Kannappan, with feedback from
Tom Michael) is available on the FTP site. It's called
ACF_position_license_fees.

 

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