AP Story

I was just reading the newspaper and found the following story (excerpted for educational purposes and not in its entirety):

By Richard Cole
The Associated Press

        SAN FRANCISCO - If you're going to San Francisco for the 30th
     Anniversary of the Summer of Love, be sure to wear some flowers in 
     your hair -- but also bring your lawyer.

        "Summer of Love" is now a registered trademark.

        The copyrighting of a name that symbolized the very regjection 
     of commercial values suggests that the time, they are a changin' 
     -- oops, that tune is licensed to a Canadian Bank.

Whoa, hold on here. Am I the only one who finds this very weird? The article goes on to say:

        [Bill Graham Presents] wanted to use the name for a block party,
     and found Summer of Love had been copyrighted years ago, though the 
     rights had lapsed.

Does anyone have a connection with AP and can unconfuse them? Or is this not stupid and I'm just having a bad day?

Carol Cricow
<carol[_at_]yujean.com>
Who THOUGHT there was a difference!

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"To lose one parent . . . may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
Oscar Wilde Received on Wed May 21 1997 - 21:07:31 GMT