Negotiating Sports-Related Brand Integration Deals in a New Media Environment
By Douglas N. Masters, Loeb & Loeb LLP*
Sports-related brand integration is appearing in more and more places including endorsements and sponsorships of sporting events, co-promotions with service providers and entertainment companies and insertion of sports footage or sports-related props into television shows and movies.
Examples of this include:
1. The NBA partnered with Paramount Pictures to promote the release of “Mission Impossible III”. The movie was the exclusive advertiser on