{"page":{"id":566,"title":"Intellectual Property Policy","handle":"intellectual-property-policy","url":"https://floodlit.shop/intellectual-property-policy/","body_html":"

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Team kit is full of other people’s property: club crests, league marks, sportswear logos, famous colour combinations, player names. Floodlit stays out of all of it. This page explains what belongs to us on floodlit.shop and how you may use it, the rules we follow so that nothing we sell borrows someone else’s rights, what that means for the text you ask us to print, and how to report a trademark, design or other intellectual property concern. Copyright notices have their own process on our DMCA page.

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At a glance

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1. What belongs to Floodlit

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The following are owned by Floodlit or used by us under licence, and are protected by copyright, trademark and other laws:

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2. What you may do with our content

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3. What you may not do

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4. Original designs only

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Every design we sell is drawn by or for Floodlit. When we design a jersey, we follow a short set of rules:

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  1. No real names or marks. No club, league, tournament, college or sportswear brand names, crests, badges, logos, sponsor marks or slogans appear on our products, in our product names, colourway names, SKUs or descriptions.
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  2. No replicas. We do not reproduce, or set out to imitate, the home, away or keeper kit of any real team, past or present. Our colourways are named after the night game (the hour, the light, the cage), never after a team or a city.
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  3. No national kits. We do not arrange national colours to imitate a national team’s shirt.
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  4. No real players. Example names in our product photos and previews are invented, such as KOWALCZYK 9, ADEYEMI 14 or ROURKE 3. We never use a real player’s name and number as an example.
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  5. Shared patterns stay generic. Hoops, stripes, sashes, halves, checks and raglan sleeves are patterns all of sport has used for generations. We use them in our own proportions and colours, not copied from any particular shirt.
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Colour on its own is not a mark we avoid: plenty of teams in every league wear navy, red or white. What we avoid is a combination of colours, pattern and placement that would make someone think the shirt is a particular real team’s kit. Our dark-base and light-base ranges are designed around how a shirt reads under floodlights, not around any existing team.

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If you think we got any of this wrong, we want to know. See section 9.

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5. Text you ask us to print

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Most Floodlit products have personalisation fields: a name and number on the back, a team name on the front, or a slot line such as TUE 9:10 under the number. We print that text exactly as typed, with no proof first, which means the responsibility for what is typed sits with the person ordering. By placing an order, you confirm that the text:

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If an order’s text breaks these rules, we will not print it. We contact you, and either you give us different text within your change window or we cancel that item with a full refund. Repeated attempts to order protected names or logos lead to orders being refused.

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Joke team names

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Five-a-side team names are usually jokes, and that is fine. A pun is your own. What we cannot print is a joke that relies on a real club’s or brand’s name or logo, because that still uses their mark. When in doubt, email us before you order and we will tell you whether we can print it.

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6. Examples: what we can and cannot print

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Personalisation text examples
Requested textCan we print it?Why
A player’s own surname and a number, such as PALMA 22YesIt is the player’s own name, used with their agreement
A nickname the squad uses, such as BIG TOMYesYour own words
Your own pun team nameYesYour own words, as long as it does not lean on a real club or brand name
A league slot such as TUE 9:10 or PITCH 3YesA time and place, owned by nobody
The name of a real professional or college clubNoIt is that club’s name and often its trademark
A famous player’s surname with their shirt numberNoIt copies a recognisable real shirt and that player’s identity
The name or slogan of a sportswear or drinks brandNoIt is the brand’s trademark
The name of your local league, if the league has a registered name or logoOnly with the league’s written permissionLeagues often own their names and marks; email us first
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These are examples, not a complete list. If something you want to print is not covered, ask us before ordering rather than after: changes are only free within 24 hours of placing the order, as explained on Cancel or Change an Order.

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7. Our trademarks

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Floodlit and the floodlight-mast logo are trademarks of Floodlit. You may refer to us by name, for example to tell your league where your shirts came from. You may not use our name or logo on your own products, in your own business name or domain, or in advertising in a way that could make people think you are us or are connected with us.

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If your league or venue would like to mention that a team plays in Floodlit kit, for example in a fixture list or a season round-up, a plain text mention of our name is fine. Using our logo needs our written permission first.

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Other names that appear on the site, such as the names of countries or general sports terms, belong to nobody in particular or to their owners. Their appearance does not mean any organisation endorses Floodlit.

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8. Respecting other people’s rights

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We do not knowingly sell anything that infringes anyone’s trademark, copyright, design right, or right of publicity. When we learn that a product, a page or an image may do so, we review it promptly. While the review is open, we may pause sales of the product. If the concern is valid, we remove or change the product or content, and we tell any customer with an unshipped order of it what is happening and offer a full refund.

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9. How to report an intellectual property concern

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Email support@floodlit.shop with the subject line “IP concern”. Please include:

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  1. your name and contact details, and your relationship to the rights owner (owner, employee, lawyer, agent);
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  2. the right concerned, for example a trademark and its registration number and country, or a description of the registered design;
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  3. the exact URL of each product or page on floodlit.shop you are concerned about;
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  4. a short explanation of why you believe it infringes;
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  5. a statement that the information in your report is accurate and that you are the rights owner or authorised to act for them.
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You can also write to Floodlit, 8428 Jeannette St, New Orleans, LA 70118, US, though email is quicker. For a copyright claim specifically (an illustration, a photo, a piece of writing), please use the process on our DMCA page.

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10. What happens after you report

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How we handle intellectual property reports
StepWhat happens
AcknowledgementWe confirm we have your report within 24 hours on business days.
Missing detailsIf we need more information to assess it, we ask before deciding anything.
ReviewWe compare the product or content with the right you have described, and may pause sales while we do.
DecisionWe tell you by email what we decided and why.
Action, if the report is validWe remove or change the product, image or text, and cancel and refund any unshipped orders of it.
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11. If you see our designs elsewhere

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If you find a Floodlit design, photo or text being sold or used somewhere else, we would appreciate a short email with a link. It helps us protect the designs our customers chose and keeps buyers from being misled into thinking a copy came from us.

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12. Permission requests

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Want to use a Floodlit drawing in a league newsletter, feature our kit in an article, or ask about something else not covered here? Email support@floodlit.shop with what you want to use and where. We reply within 24 hours on business days, and permission only counts once you have it from us in writing.

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13. Ideas and feedback

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If you send us ideas for colourways, patterns or products, we are glad to read them. We may use ideas freely without paying for them, because many people suggest similar things; we will never publish your name or personal details without your permission. If you want to keep an idea to yourself, please do not send it.

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14. Contact

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Intellectual property questions: support@floodlit.shop, subject “IP concern”. Post: Floodlit, 8428 Jeannette St, New Orleans, LA 70118, US. See also our Terms of Service and Contact Us.

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