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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
"To induce the sale of any goods or services," Hank. To put it in terms you can understand, 43 is at the second interview stage in front of a really large Recruitment Committee. But the end result is the same --- sale of services. It's hard to see when the prospective hire is already rich, I know, but it's there if you look.
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Nice try, but no cigar* for you. All that statute does is prevent someone from selling a T-shirt or other goods with the Olympic rings on it or calling their sporting event the Olympics.
It certainly doesn't prevent non-commercial speech about the Olympics. If it did, the IOC could go after a newspaper for discussing the Olympics. Or even go after us for talking about the Olympics here. That of course would be unconstitutional.
The statute in no way affects the copyrights to a film. If you took a video tape of an event and tried to sell it commercially labeling it with the Olympic rings or even entitiling it with the name Olympics, that statute would apply, but not under copyright law; it would be a mark issue.
*I am sure you can get a cigar from your buddy Clinton, though. It might be a bit stinky, though.
