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To: lugsoul

Have you seen the ad?

http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/423569|top|08-26-2004::08:46|reuters.html

"The ad has angered Olympic officials because they feel it hijacks the Olympic brand -- a registered trademark -- even though it does not display the Games logo"


25 posted on 08/26/2004 8:48:29 AM PDT by LisaAnne
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To: LisaAnne
Didja miss this part?

The IOC said no official request had been made for the use of the reference to the Games. "We own the rights to the Olympic name and nobody asked us," Gerhard Heiberg, head of the International Olympic Committee's Marketing Commission had said on Wednesday.

27 posted on 08/26/2004 8:53:00 AM PDT by lugsoul (Until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside.)
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