OT: TIL Georgia Tech owns the mascot for my HS and prevented it from being painted on the town's water tower.

I grew up in a smaller town in MD (Damascus) where the High School football is a big part of the community (2015 and 2016 Div. 3A state champs and 5 since 2003), and our mascot is the Swarmin' Hornets. I always knew it was close to the GT mascot, but I didn't realize it was actually owned by GT and leased to DHS under the conditions that the logo can only be used by the high school on school property, and that the hornet is adapted to have green and yellow stripes with a large 'D' on the chest, rather than black and gold and no lettering that GT uses. I've also always thought it looked a little more 'cartoonish' too (you can see both on the last page of the embedded pdf in the below article).

Recently the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission came to town to repaint the water tower, visible from the high school, and the design was originally supposed to have the word "Damascus" across it with the hornet logo below. GT has now apparently used their copyright of the logo to block the hornet from being painted on the water tower.

A lot of the town is upset about the fact that GT is affecting a small town hundreds of miles away since most people don't know it's owned by GT. I would've liked to see it, but I'm pretty indifferent because I understand that it is their right to do so. Just thought it was an interesting chain of events going on.

http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/maryland/georgia-tech-rejects-pleas-from...

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