{"id":2632,"date":"2004-10-08T09:55:26","date_gmt":"2004-10-08T13:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/10\/08\/harvard-mits-bastard-child-2\/"},"modified":"2004-10-08T09:55:26","modified_gmt":"2004-10-08T13:55:26","slug":"harvard-mits-bastard-child-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/10\/08\/harvard-mits-bastard-child-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard &amp; MIT&#8217;s Bastard Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3957'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/harvad.jpg\" width=\"537\" height=\"139\"><\/p>\n<p>We assume that Harvard, like Mickey Mouse, has a guardian of its image<br \/>\n        and trademark, constantly on the lookout for rip-offs and unauthorized<br \/>\n        usage of its name. Hell, they probably have an office full of worms,<br \/>\n        moles and spiders combing the globe for anything remotely resembling<br \/>\n        an infringment of their <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;cid=573&amp;ncid=573&amp;e=6&amp;u=\/nm\/20040702\/od_nm\/odd_germany_cat_dc\"><\/a>brand<br \/>\n        name.<\/p>\n<p>So we clipped with relish this advertisment from El Universo, the Dean<br \/>\n        of Ecuadorian Journalism, in Guayaquil, Ecuador. It implore students<br \/>\n        to &quot;Register Now&quot; and &quot;Say Yes to <br \/>\n      English at Harvard.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>If the Harvard Copyright Squad really wants to get to the bottom of<br \/>\n        this one, some high-level diplomatic rangling may be required. The small<br \/>\n        print under the morterboard model reads: &quot;With the approval of the Ministry<br \/>\n        of Education.&quot; Undoubtedly, a conspiracy reaching high into the Ecuadorian<br \/>\n        government&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eluniverso.com\/\">El Universo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We assume that Harvard, like Mickey Mouse, has a guardian of its image and trademark, constantly on the lookout for rip-offs and unauthorized usage of its name. Hell, they probably have an office full of worms, moles and spiders combing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/10\/08\/harvard-mits-bastard-child-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}