[LINK] geographic indicators: champagne and lesbians

[Kim Holburn]

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/22/europe/EU-GEN-Switzerland-Champagne-Name.php
> Swiss village loses European court case to name its wine champagne
> 
> CHAMPAGNE, Switzerland: A group of winemakers from the Swiss village of Champagne have lost a legal battle to attach the town's name to locally-produced wine, a local official said Wednesday.
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> France has fiercely resisted the labeling of any wine as champagne unless it is produced in the region of France that produces the famous bubbly.
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> Marc-Andre Cornu, mayor of the village on the shores of Lake Neuchatel, said the Swiss winemakers lost their case at the European Court of Justice on a technicality, confirming a report in the Neue Zuercher Zeitung.
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> Village authorities are vowing to continue their fight to use the champagne label.
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> The Swiss winemakers insist on continuing the ancient custom of naming their wine after their village, which they say has been called Champagne — with variations on the spelling — since the earliest documents available in 885 A.D.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7376919.stm
> Lesbos islanders dispute gay name
> By Malcolm Brabant
> BBC News, Athens
> 
> Gay pride parade Brazil 2007
> The term lesbian is now widely used to describe homosexual women
> 
> Campaigners on the Greek island of Lesbos are to go to court in an attempt to stop a gay rights organisation from using the term "lesbian".
> 
> The islanders say that if they are successful they may then start to fight the word lesbian internationally.
> 
> The issue boils down to who has the right to call themselves Lesbians. 




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