crazy horse....strip club
I talked crap @ 6:17 p.m. on 10.25.04
as many of you know, i was recently in san francisco. while walking with my family to the Lion King musical thing, we passed the Crazy Horse gentleman's club. this would ordinarily have little effect on me, except that i had only just recently read an article describing a suit brought about by a group of native americans, suing to force the club to change its name. the indians contest that they must respect the name, or honor his memory or something like that. my mom agrees very fervently with the indian point of view, and was very strongly against the name of the club. i disagree.
a few years ago, mcdonalds brought a suit against an asian company (info here http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/press/mcds/usnationalafp040903.html) the general gist is that mcdonalds was suing to prevent the other company from using "mac" infront of its foods. mcdonalds tried to establish that they had a claim the the name "mac" and that noone should be able to use it. the name was dropped.
lets suppose for a moment that my name is bob, and some guy in des moines had a store. well call it bob's hunting supply. if i didnt like guns, i would not be given the right to prevent the Des. man from naming his store bob's. i have no trademark on the name bob, just because im named bob.
The situation is no different for the name crazy horse. hell, the ppl suing arent even named crazy horse. they have no monopoly on the name, and just because they dont like strip clubs, doesnt mean they can tell/force the owner to change the name.
additionaly, the name is protected under the first ammendment. as long as the name does not break obscenity laws, it can be named whatever the hell it wants to be.
the indians, for about the 100000000 time in history, lose
