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Jordan Lorence: ?Censorship of Students via ?Trademark? Law?

By ADF Alliance Alert

Jordan Lorence writes at the Speak Up Blog via the Christian Post: "Our friends at FIRE have written about the absurd attempts by the University of California-Berekely to restrict the names of student organizations can call themselves by claiming 'trademark' rights over words such as 'Cal' and 'California,' and even some restrictions on the use of 'Berkeley.' I agree that in some isolated situations, a private student group may name itself something that may confuse people into thinking it is an official part of UC-Berkeley. But this is needless overkill, and is another way that universities can harass private student organizations that advocate unpopular or controversial ideas . . . "

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 19, 2010 (boomark / email).