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Old 08-10-2009, 01:34 AM   #11
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Also, if someone operates a league and then stops operating it "ownership" no longer exists.
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...the founder has already walked away from the league so it's not really his anymore...
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I do kind of feel like the league is my intellectual property.
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-My previous thinking that the last commish trumps even the founder is maybe wrong, especially with a league like this where the founder really did come up with a lot of the original ideas.
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As for this league being unique and probably being 9lives property (versus any other commish that came later) I wholeheartedly agree! ...He handcrafted a world, the cities, provided a standard for naming players and brought the whole thing to life for us.
I strongly feel that a league is owned by its creator indefinitely, unless he specifically passes on the rights to it. Even a league's name is a valuable piece of "intellectual property."

Ideally, when a league's founder passes on control of the league to a new Commissioner, there will be an explicit, clear agreement on who has ultimate control over the "property" of the league, from its name, on down.
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