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COLLEGIATE LICENSING COMPANY NIXES HEISMAN PARODY T-SHIRT

          The CLC has "notified" a bookstore located "across the
     street" from the Univ. of FL that the image on the T-shirt
     which parodies the Heisman Trophy and disparages FL State
     Univ. WR Peter Warrick "bore too close a likeness to the
     actual" trophy, "violating the trademark" of the Downtown
     Athletic Club, according to Beth Kassab of the ST.
     PETERSBURG TIMES.  The T-shirt depicts Warrick, who was
     recently arrested for "taking more than" $400 worth of
     merchandise from a Dillard's department store and "paying
     about" $20, as the "1999 Heistman" winner and, in a "play on
     Warrick's first comments after the investigation became
     public," reads, "It's not like he shot the president."  The
     $16.99 shirt was "pulled from" the bookstore's shelves after
     "about a week's sales."  Smack Apparel Owner Wayne Curtiss,
     whose company made the shirts, "got written legal warnings"
     from the CLC to stop printing them (ST. PETE TIMES, 11/17).

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