To check that a given person at a school has authority over logo usage, Orga recommended contacting the school's licensing department, or barring that, the Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC), the governing body that handles all college licensing. This may seem like a silly step to take if you've been hired by the college, but keep in mind that your client may not be aware of the licensing rules themselves. Orga gave the example of student greek organizations as collegiate bodies that will occasionally stumble over licensing laws. "There's a lot of sororities and fraternities that think just because they're a sorority or fraternity of that school that they can go and put that school's logo on the front of a T-shirt, and that's usually not the case," he said. "Some of your smaller schools yes, but the bigger schools, you're not allowed to." He noted as well that if you're looking for access to the license yourself, you have to go through the CLC.
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