The creators of the costume for the Phillie Phanatic—the famous green mascot for Major League Baseball’s Philadelphia Phillies—asked a Manhattan federal court to rule in their favor in their dispute with the team over the copyright to the mascot.
The Phillies sued Harrison/Erickson Inc. in 2019 for a declaration that it can’t terminate the team’s copyright interest in the mascot. Bonnie Erickson and Wayde Harrison sold the costume to the Phillies in 1978 and 1984 agreements, but a provision of the Copyright Act allows creators to terminate copyright grants 35 years later.
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