Café Hon owner Denise Whiting may very well have a legal right to demand that vendors at Honfest, the Hampden festival she created and runs, obey certain rules. After the flap caused last year by the news that she had copyrighted the word "Hon" and would seek to restrict its use on commercial products such as t-shirts and bumper stickers, we might have imagined that she would have lightened up. But evidently, the public outcry and threats of boycotts did not outweigh what she perceived to be her commercial interest in maintaining strict control over her intellectual property. Many may consider that unwise, but it is a public relations and business decision she has every right to make.