{"id":64248,"date":"2016-02-09T12:56:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T17:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64248"},"modified":"2016-02-09T11:24:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T16:24:05","slug":"sanders-gets-cd-letter-from-the-american-legion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64248","title":{"rendered":"Sanders gets C&#038;D letter from the American Legion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/02\/bernie-sanders-american-legion-logo-218945#ixzz3zggAFhHt\">Politico<\/a>, the Bernie Sanders campaign has been using the American Legion&#8217;s seal in his campaign literature and they had to send him a cease and desist letter twice to get him to stop. The seal is trademarked and protected against unauthorized use by the US Code. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Sanders campaign has come under fire in recent weeks for using the veterans organization\u2019s logo on fliers. \u201cWe sincerely appreciate the notification of the unintentional improper use by Sanders of the emblem of The American Legion and the helpful information pertaining to your concerns,\u201d the Seattle-based firm Garvey Schubert Barer said in a statement representing the campaign. \u201cSanders takes intellectual property matters very seriously and does its best to respectfully and appropriately acknowledge and to not infringe the intellectual property rights of others.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, they&#8217;re so respectful of the laws that have to be asked twice. The American Legion isn&#8217;t the only organization&#8217;s graphics to which the Sanders campaign has helped themselves. They appropriated the League of Conservation Voters&#8217; logo as well as the trademark of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) according to <a href=\"http:\/\/kval.com\/news\/nation-world\/bernie-sanders-asked-to-drop-american-legion-emblem-from-campaign\">KVAL<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Politico, the Bernie Sanders campaign has been using the American Legion&#8217;s seal in his &hellip; <a title=\"Sanders gets C&#038;D letter from the American Legion\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64248\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sanders gets C&#038;D letter from the American Legion<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}