Las Vegas hotels cancel Super Bowl parties - 2004-02-01
Some of Las Vegas' biggest hotel-casinos are canceling Super Bowl parties and issuing refunds to thousands of guests after the NFL threatened legal action against those broadcasting the title game on big-screen TVs.
Several hotels received letters last week informing them their parties were "unauthorized use of NFL intellectual property."
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said the league only recently became aware of large parties planned in Las Vegas and elsewhere around the country.
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