https://priceonomics.com/how-mickey-mouse-evades-the-public-...
> According a precedent set in a 1979 court case, a trademark can protect a character in the public domain as long as that character has obtained what is called “secondary meaning.” This means that the character and the company are virtually inseparable: upon seeing it, one will immediately identify it with a brand.
You'd be surprised what you can squeeze into a budget reconciliation bill if you care enough, the government has to reopen eventually.
Honestly, enough people just don't.
But you can.
the point is that the electorate doesn't care and you don't want them to.
Most people do not have this purported easy access to Capitol Hill it is not trivial to get it done under a certa8n amount of fiscal influence. Please qualify your use of the word easy with numbers please, else its just empty words
For a significant number of voters, intellectual property policy now works like a social issue, in terms of the intensity of emotion and effort it elicits.