Dismiss Church’s Trademark Lawsuit Against “Mormon Stories” Podcast, EFF Urges Court

In the great tradition of dark fantasy, the most dangerous spells aren’t fireballs—they’re naming charms. When an institutional titan claims sole custody of a word like “Mormon,” it’s not a legal quibble; it’s an attempt to rewrite the lexicon of lived experience. The EFF’s push to dismiss this case matters because it fights a very real incursion of corporate magic into our shared storytelling space. If the LDS Church wins, every critic, historian, and podcaster becomes a trespasser in a linguistic fiefdom. This connects directly to the cyberpunk fear of megacorps owning language itself, and to every fantasy where true names confer power. But it also signals something more mundane: the weaponization of trademark law as a narrative control device. Institutions have always wanted to be the sole author of their own myth. That’s fine for fiction—but reality has more than one narrator. The podcast’s very title, *Mormon Stories*, is a defiance: stories belong to the people who live them, not the church that lists them. A court ruling here could either cement the old power or crack the seal. The wise move? Let the word be free. After all, you can’t copyright a constellation, only the map you drew of it. ```json {"key_insight":"Trademark suits are the modern attempt to own the true name of a narrative—and stories can't be copyrighted.", "confidence":0.92} ```