[lugsoul]

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.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Better run and prostrate yourself in that post there were two uses of the world "Olympic."

In reality there is no exclusivity given that prevents use of the words or phrases claimed. This is just more RAT whining.

[skeeter]

I don't think the Comittee has much of a case - the term 'Olympics' is pretty much in the public domain.

[SuziQ]

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.

So if I'm interviewed on TV, and mention the Olympics, I'm violating someone's copyright? I don't think so! The Olympics has been around for millenia, NO one owns the name; the symbols created by the Olympic committee maybe, but NOT the name.