{"id":80009,"date":"2018-06-16T07:19:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T12:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80009"},"modified":"2018-06-16T07:19:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T12:19:41","slug":"nikes-stolen-valor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80009","title":{"rendered":"Nike\u2019s Stolen Valor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/navy_nike-e1529150306401.jpg\" alt=\"Navy_Nike\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2018\/06\/16\/navy-sinks-nike-s-release-logo-similar-to-annapolis-crest.html\">Fox News<\/a> reports Nike on Friday apologized and halted the release of a logo for a sportswear line that bore a striking similarity to the U.S. Naval Academy crest scheduled to launch Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The logo, which was a collaboration between Nike and Undefeated, a Los Angeles sportswear line, sparked backlash on social media and prompted the rebuke from the U.S. Naval Academy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The similarities of the Nike\/UNDEFEATED logo released this week and the USNA Crest are undeniable and we believe their logo is clearly an infringement under trademark law. USNA is working with Navy leadership to order Nike\/UNDEFEATED to cease and desist their use of the logo,\u201d the Naval Academy tweeted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An academy spokeswoman also released a statement Friday obtained by The Washington Post.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Naval Academy crest represents honor, integrity and leadership,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd is emblematic of our students and more than 80,000 alumni who serve and have served our country, many of whom made the ultimate sacrifice in its defense.\u201d<br \/>\nComments poured in on social media calling the logo \u201cjust plain wrong\u201d and a \u201cripoff,\u201d while some on Twitter called it \u201cstolen valor,\u201d according to The Post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m willing to bet most folks at Nike and Undefeated had no idea someone in the graphic arts department was ripping of the Naval Academy\u2019s Crest; the quick apology and rescinding of the logo is welcome. Now they need to publicly fire those responsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports Nike on Friday apologized and halted the release of a logo for a &hellip; <a title=\"Nike\u2019s Stolen Valor\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80009\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nike\u2019s Stolen Valor<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}