If I dress up as a sexy Girl Scout for Halloween, are there any possible legal repercussions?
December 12, 2009 by
Filed under girls
I’m going to be wearing my old Junior Girl Scout vest. It has my old troop number as well as the council (regional headquarters) my troop was in. It also has many patches on the back with either the Girl Scouts’ logo or organization name on it.
I will be wearing this costume to go clubbing.
No. Why would it? If you’re clubbing, it’ll be obvious you’re no longer a Girl Scout.
Just don’t be showing people your cookies though. THAT could get you in trouble.
Only if you are famous. Because then maybe the Girl Scouts organization would try to sue you for defaming their image or something.
If you are a normal person, they wouldn’t have a case.
lol, showing them your cookies. That’s funny right there.
uh….hundreds of thousands of these every Halloween….
And oftten just on a hot night in.
Fine
If someone wanted to be really picky about it, I suppose there could be.
Girl Scouts has the sole and exclusive right by virtue of its Congressional Charter, 36 U.S.C. ยง 80106 et. seq., to have and use all service marks, trademarks, emblems, badges, descriptive or designating marks, and other words now or heretofore used in carrying out its program and is the owner of the GIRL SCOUTS name, service mark, and trademark, and of all other associated names, marks, slogans, insignias, logotypes and designs, including but not limited to the distinctive TREFOIL design mark, the GSUSA uniforms and other indicia, the names and marks “Girl Scouts of the United States of America”, “Brownie Girl Scouts”, “Junior Girl Scouts”, “Daisy Girl Scouts” and “Cadette/Senior Girl Scouts”, and such trademarks and service marks as WHERE GIRLS GROW STRONG, FOR EVERY GIRL EVERYWHERE, GIRLSPORTS, and STUDIO 2B (hereinafter collectively identified as the “Intellectual Property”).
No, you are legally protected.
The First Amendment protects this as a form of free speech, and copyright law allows for the use of copyrighted material (your uniform) for parody, which this clearly is.