To: Freedom_no_exceptions
They don’t need one.
They have bestowed such status on many groups in the past, the most notable is the US Olympic committee.
Did you know that that special act of Congress even bestowed a copyright to them on the name “Olympic,” and all of it’s derivatives?
I was a party to such a case involving them, and am intimately familiar in the ways that Congress can indeed create an act bestowing special status.
390 posted on
10/19/2007 12:53:17 PM PDT by
bill1952
("all that we do is done with an eye towards something else." - Aristotle)
To: bill1952
The fact that Congress HAS repeatedly overstepped its mandate, and possibly even followed some of its own contrived internal procedure in doing so, does not make it right. The USOC should have secured a copyright like everyone else.
Out of curiosity, was that in response to the "Gay Olympics," which had to be renamed the "Gay Games"?
393 posted on
10/19/2007 1:03:19 PM PDT by
Freedom_no_exceptions
(No actual, intended, or imminent victim = no crime. No exceptions.)
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