Whose Tat? Body Art, Copyright and Sports

By Robert Freeman, Jonathan Mollod, and Ted Tywang, of Proskauer   Sports and Hollywood have long been inextricably linked — many athletes want to be and even become actors, countless actors have lived out their athletic fantasies on the silver screen, and it is no secret that athletes and actresses are often quite publicly attracted to each other. Recently, another area of overlap between sports and movies has emerged: the fringes of copyright law.   Both movies and sports have give