The London 2012 Olympic Games Committee is cute

[Mighty_Girl]

@JRDelirious

IIRC in the USA you can get a nasty letter from USOC, backed by federal statute, if you start a business with the name “Olympic” outside of western Washington State.

Wait, what? They own the word “olympic”?

[Gatopescado]

BMX is an Olympic sport? F that!

[PlainJain]

There shitty, atrocious logo is enough for a pitting alone.

[Robot_Arm]

@Mighty_Girl

Wait, what? They own the word “olympic”?

Western Washington was clever enough to have Olympia and the Olympic Mountains before the IOC decided they owned those words. I guess they’re grandfathered in.

[Beware_of_Doug]

@Little_Nemo

I totally misunderstood the intent of the thread title.

I thought it was going to be about Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, and Emma Watson joining the committee.

They said cute, not hot.

[Little_Nemo]

@Beware_of_Doug

They said cute, not hot.

No, that would be if Gemma Arterton, Kate Beckinsale, and Elizabeth Hurley joined the committee.

[JRDelirious]

@Robot_Arm

Western Washington was clever enough to have Olympia and the Olympic Mountains before the IOC decided they owned those words. I guess they’re grandfathered in.

Otherwise the Amateur Sports Act would not have any votes from Washington, I suppose Actually, I exaggerate, some years afterwards the Act was sensibly amended to restore the longtime trademark principle that there’s no case if it’s obvious your business is not associated with Olympic sport, but for the 20 years before the amendment got passed yes USOC technically “owned” the terms and on ocassion would get Disneyesque about it.

[DrDeth]

@Mighty_Girl

Wait, what? They own the word “olympic”?

USOC tangled up in knitting controversy before London Games

[BunnyTVS]

@Mighty_Girl

Wait, what? They own the word “olympic”?

They are also attempting to block the use of the words gold, summer, sponsors, 2012 and London.

[Hal_Briston]

@BunnyTVS

They are also attempting to block the use of the words gold, summer, sponsors, 2012 and London.

How tempting to make up “Gold Family Reunion Summer BBQ – London 2012” t-shirts.

[KarlGauss]

@JRDelirious

Otherwise the Amateur Sports Act would not have any votes from Washington, I suppose Actually, I exaggerate, some years afterwards the Act was sensibly amended to restore the longtime trademark principle that there’s no case if it’s obvious your business is not associated with Olympic sport, but for the 20 years before the amendment got passed yes USOC technically “owned” the terms and on ocassion would get Disneyesque about it.

I was living in Calgary at the time of the 1988 Winter Olympics. One of the stories making the rounds concerned the venerable “Olympic Restaurant”, a Calgary fixture for decades. I think you can guess the rest . . . yes, the restaurant owners were compelled to change its name.

[Sicks_Ate]

@KarlGauss

I was living in Calgary at the time of the 1988 Winter Olympics. One of the stories making the rounds concerned the venerable “Olympic Restaurant”, a Calgary fixture for decades. I think you can guess the rest . . . yes, the restaurant owners were compelled to change its name.

“The power of the IOC compels you! The power of the IOC compels you!”

[lisiate]

@Hal_Briston

How tempting to make up “Gold Family Reunion Summer BBQ – London 2012” t-shirts.

Maybe ancestry.com can be your sponsers.