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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Kamala Outright Lies About Women's Basketball Brackets
Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 19:23:00 -0000 (UTC)
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BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>May 30, 2024 at 9:46:55 AM PDT, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>On 5/29/24 4:19 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

>>>>>Kamala Harris claimed that women's basketball wasn't even allowed to have
>>>>>playoff brackets until 2022, when in reality, women's basketball has been
>>>>>using them since 1982, 42 years.

>>>>>Kamala herself tweeted out exchanges with her husband in 2021 where they
>>>>>talked about who they were choosing in their brackets.

>>>>>https://youtu.be/yYjH5g9ogXE?t=409

>>>>>Between Biden's almost weekly made-up stories about his past and Kamala
>>>>>gaslighting us about women's basketball, what the hell is going on in the
>>>>>White House?
 
>>>>Now tell the rest of the story, coward. But you won't, so I'll have to 
>>>>do it again.

>>>>>Mediaite reached out to the Vice President's office for clarification
>>>>>and was told that Harris did, in fact, misspeak and that she meant
>>>>>to say that the use of the "March Madness" copyright was only made
>>>>>available to the women's tournament lin 2022.

>>>Hahahahahahahahahaha!

>>>"Misspeak". That's politician code for "lie".

>>It makes no sense. How can the generic concept of playoffs be
>>copyrighted to begin with?

>It's not even a copyright issue. At best "March Madness" is a trademark. The
>copyright statute doesn't allow for copyrighting de minimis phrases like
>that.

I am well aware that March Madness was trademarked by NCAA long after
people started calling the playoffs that. They didn't even originate the
term themselves.

I'm simply pointing out that the concept of a sports league's system of
playoffs are too generic and nothing in law would have prevented women's
college basketball from having bracketed playoffs.

From what you've told us, her original complaint was NOT about use of
the trademarked term March Madness. That was her own office
backpedalling and getting it wrong in an all new way.

>>. . .