[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.

[lugsoul]

Perhaps you, also, should learn the difference between an ad and an interview. And they do own the name, your pronouncement notwithstanding.