VANOC Rips Off Canada’s National Anthem
The Windsor Star reports today that the Vancouver Olympic Committee has plagiarized our Canadian national anthem and proclaimed the slogan of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, “With Glowing Hearts.”
We all know that the Olympics are causing further degradation of the natural environment and the standard of life for Vancouver’s homeless and poor. However now they will have also disrespected our national anthem and shown it to be susceptible to corporate interests. I think our national anthem should be protected from such attempts by corporations, political groups or even the government to use any part of the national anthem for any reason other than to recite it. It’s an anthem afterall, not some campaign theme that a politican can steal from another politican.
Followup (Sept. 26)
This is also covered in today’s Vancouver Province. Hopefully the movement against it gathers steam. Our national anthem shouldn’t be open for trademarking.
Followup 2
As is inevitable for everything important in life, someone has started a Facebook group. It’s called “VANOC, keep your hands off our anthem!” Please join and invite friends.
I dont think i can ever sing our national anthem again knowing it will forever be tied to commercial interests and that vanoc will be making money off of canada’s national anthem for a 2 week event. those words belong to every canadian past present and future and should never be used for corporate interests and im sorry but vanoc isnt a publicly owned company or a non-profit organization.