"Just another stick pokes in the eye of religion. After all the standards and morals are torn down, on what what will society stand?" If you need religion to make you not a,shitty person, then you are a shitty person already.
Agh! How dare they try to promote knowledge of safe sex and hand out the one thing that would tank their abortion numbers if TBMs ever stopped being stupid for long enough to put two and two together!!!
The article is, word for word, the same as the one in today's Derseret News, of course. I , too, won't be surprisd if a lawsuit comes of this, for trademark infringement.
"If you need religion to make you not a shitty person, then you are a shitty person already." So true!!
cinda Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The article is, word for word, the same as the one > in today's Derseret News, of course. I , too, > won't be surprisd if a lawsuit comes of this, for > trademark infringement.
Not very likely. Planned Parenthood didn't derive any monetary profit from the infringing use. About all the morg could do would be issue a cease and desist (which apparently they didn't do yet). And since PP pulled it, now that's even irrelevant.
This might even be "fair use," which would make it not subject to a lawsuit anyway:
"It is a basic principle marking an outer boundary of the trademark monopoly that, while trademark rights may be acquired in a word, symbol or device, acquisition of those rights does not prevent others from using the word, symbol or devise in good faith in its descriptive sense, and not as a trademark. This principle is of great importance because it protects the right of society at large to use words or images in their primary descriptive sense, as against the claims of a trademark owner to exclusivity."
Part of the "in good faith" area of "fair use" is that the user isn't using it to make a monetary profit -- which was the case here. Essentially, even though the morg have trademarked "choose the right," and their symbols they display it with, that doesn't prevent anyone from using "choose the right" as a descriptive phrase, meaning "to choose what's right."
The church can't sue me if I walk around all day saying "Choose the right!" I can even make signs saying that. And use the letters with a shield symbol. As long as I'm not making a profit from what I do, and I'm using the descriptive meaning of the words, they can't do squat about it.