Aha, now there's an idea. Opinions of these observations are meaningless if they are developed in ignorance. I've come across some very simple forms of intellectual property law when I was an artist. We didn't study it in great detail other than to know what our rights were. We were taught the changes to copyright in 1972 so that we knew how to protect our work. I imagine it was a pretty cutthroat kind of world before these laws.

Here's an interesting thought: Suppose McDonald's doesn't not want to be seen as possible support of a particular charity. Sure the Special Olympics sound great, but what if some other organization (with a bad reputation like a hate group) were holding a charity for a scholarship or something? Of course, this isn't the case. Sometimes my mind just wanders like that.

Maybe I'll just go read the news article, just to get some facts insetad of conjuring some wild fantasies.