What's In A Name Reprise

Is America the home of the free but not the brie? So asks the Washington Post, observing that WTO is promoting an EU-centric scheme to circumvent trademark laws and enforce national restrictions against use of geographically-derived product names (like "Brie" and "Champagne") outside of the "approved" local area. This may be less important from a civil libertarian perspective than the TIA, but if they're going to be watching my e-mail and bank transactions I damn well want to be able to call whatever I decide to eat by whatever name I want to call it!!

 Posted by glenn