Dudley Schmidlap is a 19-year-old college student at the University of Cincinnati. He lives in an off-campus apartment and money is tight. Schmidlap is a talented artist and resourceful businessman. He's decided to use his talents to sell various goods of his own creation at a booth outside of Cincinnati Reds home games. Specifically, Schmidlap sells the following items: A black t-shirt on which he has airbrushed an artistic rendering of a Reds batting helmet along with the words "Cincinnati Reds" wrapping around the image of the helmet. A swimsuit calendar where he and some of his friends model red swimwear while posing suggestively in a different photo for each month of the calendar. In some of the photos Schmidlap or his friends are wearing baseball gloves, Cincinnati Reds jerseys they've purchased from the Reds shop at the stadium, and Cincinnati Reds batting helmets. A home-made DVD that contains numerous 10-second highlights of dramatic plays made by Reds players in the prior year. You are a paralegal working for the General Counsel's office of the Cincinnati Reds. The General Counsel attorney has asked you to prepare a memo outlining the following: What type of intellectual property law - copyright, trademark?

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