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From: FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Kamala Outright Lies About Women's Basketball Brackets
Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 06:25:43 -0400
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On 5/30/24 2:42 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On 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.

Didn't know she was a copyright lawyer like you.  That must have been 
the only class you actually attended.







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