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IOC Trademarks Part of Canadian National Anthem

Posted by kdawson on from the can't-say-that-eh dept.

gravis777 sends us to BoingBoing for news that the International Olympic Committee has trademarked a line from the Canadian National Anthem and is threatening to sue anyone who uses it. The line in question is "with glowing hearts." "The committee is so serious about protecting the Olympic brand it managed to get a landmark piece of legislation passed in the House of Commons last year that made using certain phrases related to the Games a violation of law. The list includes the number 2010 and the word 'winter,' phrases that normally couldn't be trademarked because they are so general."

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  1. Re:What I have to say... by Atzanteol · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ORLY?

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    "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"

    - Charles Darwin
  2. Kooky Canada by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is hardly the first time - even the first time this week - that Canada hasn't gone kooky about common sense. Their government seems to want to sell out to all kinds of special interests from the Muslims to the Olympics. I figure that the Canadians must love this because they keep putting these people back into office while proclaiming their superiority to their nearest southern neighbor.

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    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
  3. Re:That's ok by Darby · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I DO believe that the resentment is misplaced, as it's merely "jokers" like you who give the rest of your countrymen (and countrywomen) a bad rap, not the general populace.

    Then, quite frankly, you are a fucking idiot.
    He's one of the few people here who actually realizes that it's a joke.

  4. Re:That's ok by Darby · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    But not well enough!

    Maybe, maybe not. Had that fascist fuck gotten the traitor's death he well earned, then it just would have meant an even longer reign of the Bush crime family.
    Talk about a lose lose situation.