{"id":1705,"date":"2010-03-05T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/05\/akwesasne-hockey-team-logo-a-copy\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T14:15:00","slug":"akwesasne-hockey-team-logo-a-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/05\/akwesasne-hockey-team-logo-a-copy\/","title":{"rendered":"Akwesasne hockey team logo a copy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/busted-773059.JPG\"><img style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 200px;height: 91px\" src=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/busted-773057.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Hours after <a href=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/2010\/03\/new-hockey-teams-new-logo.html\">I posted the new Akwesasne Warriors single A hockey team logo yesterday<\/a>, Stephen Heisler of AmericanProHockey.com commented.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprohockey.com\/2010\/03\/logogate-iii-federal-hockey-league-vs.html\">He noticed the resemblance<\/a> between the Akwesasne logo (right) and the one the NBA&#8217;s Golden State Warriors uses (left).<\/p>\n<p>Pretty uncanny, huh?<\/p>\n<p>Heisler contacted Sasha Tarrant in the NBA&#8217;s legal counsel department.  Tarrant tells me the league&#8217;s intellectual property group is looking into it, but otherwise the league has no comment yet.<\/p>\n<p>I have messages in to team owner Basem Awwad.  I&#8217;ll update when I hear from him.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also worth noting that Heisler is skeptical about the entire new league &#8211; the Federal Hockey League.  You can read about his concerns <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprohockey.com\/2010\/03\/federal-hockey-league-floater.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours after I posted the new Akwesasne Warriors single A hockey team logo yesterday, Stephen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}