About Row One Brand

Row One Brand Vintage Sports Art can be found in homes, business offices, and hotels across the nation.

 Founded 12 years ago, Row One Brand is an American sports brand that offers sports fans a unique collection of historic sports wall art, unique sports gifts, and cool vintage apparel with designs created from historic game tickets, books, films, program cover art, cartoons, magazine covers, and other historic sports memorabilia artifacts in the public domain due to failure to copyright the publication, non-renewal of the copyright, or the expiration of copyright. A great example of these public domain art derived products include our 1907 Princeton football art coaster set which was created from art copyrighted in 1907 by F. Earl Christy, but the copyright has long since expired. Another example is our 1923 Navy Midshipmen at Penn State Nittany Lions game ticket. The ticket is in the public domain and can be reproduced under U.S. Federal Copyright Law.

Team names, venues, and other embedded marks that appear on Row One's vintage program cover art reproductions, ticket stub reproduction prints, and products serve the purpose of describing who played in the game (historical facts) and were present on the original creative works. These "embedded" trademarks were published as part of the original creative works often created by an artist who signed the art. Row One does not have to "black out" or remove elements of public domain publications or artistic creations. To do so, we would be required to rewrite history.

Just imagine this scenario. Let's say there is an old college football book from 1925 about Penn State football. "Penn State" might be mentioned 1,000 times in the book. The book is clearly in the public domain due to it's age. Row One would not have to erase the words "Penn State" every time they appeared in the book if we reproduced that book. To be required to erase or black out elements of public domain materials is a form of censorship and "brand" owners (public and private universities) and trademark owners do not control third party creations from the 1910s, 1920s, etc. 

Similarly, under U.S. Federal Copyright Law, Row One is not required to erase the words "Penn State" from a historic 1923 ticket reproduction print, cover art reproduction from 1920 (or 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970, or 1980 assuming the creative work wasn't copyrighted.)

 Row One does not have to censor the words "Penn State" that appear on our football ticket stub coaster set created from a rare 1923 Navy versus Penn State game ticket in our physical collection. The game was played over 100 years ago and the design is in the public domain and has been since 1923 because no party copyrighted the ticket design. 

Row One does not need permission from any party (artist, defunct ticket companies, schools, and teams) to reproduce historic tickets in the public domain. Once a creative work is in the public domain, it stays there. Trademark owners and "Brands" (including prestigious academic universities) do not own public domain materials, the public does.

1983 Auburn Tigers at Georgia Bulldogs Ticket Stub Art Design with Retro Helmet Art

1923 Navy vs. Penn State Football Ticket Coaster Set from Row One Brand with Light Grey Row 1™ trademark in lower right corner.

Row One does not use other parties' trademarks as a label or package. Row One uses historic creative works to create unique product surface designs and wall art reproductions. When possible, the original artist signature is left on the design and Row One tries to credit all of the great sports artists from the past 150 years. Public Universities don't have the right to stop the reproduction of old artwork, a third party artist's creation, just because it relates to their school. These works of art fell into the public domain 70, 80, and 100 years ago because of failure to copyright the creative works. 

Row One Brand's historic art & sports history songs are not affiliated with, licensed, sponsored, authorized, or endorsed by any school, college, university, team, league, artist, athlete, coach, venue, other brand, or any licensing entity.

Please Note: Row One Brand historic college football ticket coasters are not affiliated with, licensed, sponsored, authorized, or endorsed by any college, university, team, league, athlete, venue, artist, other brand, or any licensing entity. The coaster designs are created from historic game tickets which are like chapters from an old history book. Think about how many times teams are mentioned in newspapers, magazines, and history books without a trademark license. "News" and "Facts."

For intellectual property concerns regarding Row One™ historic products created from materials in the public domain under U.S. Federal Copyright Law, contact Row One Brand directly.

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Row One uses historic films, books, magazines, cartoons, ticket stubs, programs, vintage decals, and other historic publications no longer protected by copyright. Some of these materials date as far back as the 1800s.

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Our wall art is created from the greatest tickets and art in sports history. Row One has college football memorabilia from some of the most important games in college football history. Our physical sports memorabilia collection dates back to the 1876 Harvard-Yale Game, a program from just the second game ever played in that rivalry. The oldest college football ticket stub in our collection is an 1893 Penn vs. Princeton football ticket. Row One has several tickets from the "Games of the Century" including the 1971 Oklahoma-Nebraska Game and the 1969 Shootout between Arkansas Razorbacks and the Texas Longhorns. In addition, Row One has a large selection of pro football, baseball, and basketball art and gifts.

Row One is known for outstanding customer service and high-quality products. Row One offers a wide variety of historic sports wall art, vintage sports art watches, ticket stub products, and unique vintage gift designs created from historic memorabilia from the 1800s through the 1980s. 

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