{"id":2307,"date":"2011-01-29T14:24:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T21:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2011-01-29T19:12:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T02:12:07","slug":"trademarking-your-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2307","title":{"rendered":"Trademarking Your Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the Washington Post’s “Under God” <\/em>blog, a story about how the Seventh-Day Adventist church guards its trademark\u2014even against other Adventists<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This has got me thinking: will all religions end up trademarked? Do you need intellectual-property lawyers and copyright lawyers to be a “real religion”?<\/p>\n

Imagine trademarking “Witch.” Someone in Salem, Mass.<\/a>, is probably thinking about it already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the Washington Post’s “Under God” blog, a story about how the Seventh-Day Adventist church guards its trademark\u2014even against other Adventists. This has got me thinking: will all religions end up trademarked? Do you need intellectual-property lawyers and copyright lawyers to be a “real religion”? Imagine trademarking “Witch.” Someone in Salem, Mass., is probably thinking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-2307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-religion"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-Bd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":797,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=797","url_meta":{"origin":2307,"position":0},"title":"Greek Pagans Worship Publicly","author":"Chas S. 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