P/T Indie wrote:
That's what I don't get so there is a difference between the clubs badge and the town council badge already so there is no need for a new badge all be it just the writting underneath but if that's enought to get copyright on we don't need to change anything.
I'm not a solicitor but I understand that it isn't. You can't just change someone else's design a little bit and get it copyrighted as your own.
And if, as seems very likely, the new town council is granted copyright on the original coat of arms then THEY would control all use of that particular crest.
The club had permission to use it previously but they may (and I say 'may' only because it's a technical possibility) be denied that permission by some future administration at the new council. In any case they certainly wouldn't be able to protect the club's crest legally if they continued to use the existing one.
I suppose the club think all of that is rather messy so they want to get it all sorted out now, at an appropriate time with new signs and stationery being produced for the new stadium, and let it lead them into the new era they are about to start.