Re: AP Story

On Wed, 21 May 1997, Carol Cricow <carol[_at_]yujean.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

AP obviously has things mixed up. I could easily see a perfume company bringing out a line of "Summer of Love" perfume and trademarking it (of course I don't know who did), but not copyrighting it.

As for Dylan licensing one of his songs for use in an ad, why not???

Harold Federow
<hfederow[_at_]u.washington.edu> Received on Fri May 23 1997 - 21:15:55 GMT