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Who owns a name?

To the editor:

I am responding to an article in the paper on 1-26-2022, entitled ” Lac La Belle, Mount Bohemia reach agreement on name use.” 

In the article, Mr.Glieberman said, “we built a ski resort in the middle of nowhere.” I beg to differ. Mt. Bohemia  is not in the middle of nowhere. It is in the beautiful and very special place, the Keweenaw Peninsula. As we know Mt. Bohemia has a name, it is not an insignificant unnamed hill.

I see no way the fact that someone sells t-shirts with a hill, a skier and the name Mt. Bohemia on it could possibly impact the ski resort’s bottom line. It seems that this activity might  be giving the resort free advertising.

Why is there a need to own this name which belongs to the people of the Copper Country? I think this pettiness will make people look less favorably upon the ski resort.  

Furthermore Mr. Glieberman said, “instead of litigation with us, they could encourage us to keep investing and building up the ski resort.” So the Lac La Belle Lodge should help Mt.Bohemia, but Mt. Bohemia helped them by suing them. That is some strange help.  

Maybe the ski resort’s next project could be to trademark “The Copper Country” and prevent local businesses from using that term. 

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