Meanwhile, Back at Wayne Manor . . . 0
Jack Ohman takes on the strange case of Duke University’s attempt to prevent the estate of John “Duke” Wayne (ne Marion Robert Morrison) from marketing “Duke” Bourbon, claiming that associating the word Duke with bourbon would somehow defame Duke University, which wants sole rights to its own defamation.
A nugget:
Don’t get me wrong. I didn’t go to the University of North Carolina or anything like that. I just went to the University of Minnesota, which has a mascot called the “Golden Gopher.” Duke University has a “Blue Devil,” which is faintly satanic. No. It’s actually satanic. And blue.
Lawyers for the color blue, based in New York, filed a lawsuit last week challenging Duke University’s use of the color. The blue legal team, noted that “our color is currently being defamed by a school founded with money earned by sale and distribution therein of tobacco, a known carcinogen.”
Read the rest. It’s a treat.