{"id":923,"date":"2012-07-28T02:05:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T06:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=923"},"modified":"2012-07-28T02:05:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T06:05:57","slug":"the-ioc-trademark-law-and-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=923","title":{"rendered":"The IOC, Trademark Law and You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s true! With the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006 (UK), and similar laws pushed through in other countries as a condition of hosting a certain large quadrennial event (US- Amateur Sports Act of 1978; Canada- Olympic and Paralympics Marks Act), any infringing use of IOC &#8216;properties&#8217; (similar to, but stronger than, trademarks) such as combinations of the words &#8216;summer\/games&#8217;, &#8216;summer\/2012&#8217;, the interlocked rings, etc., are a criminal (not civil) matter. <\/p>\n<p>The following Venn diagram explains in more detail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?attachment_id=924\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-924\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/the_ioc_trademark_law_and_you.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"the_ioc_trademark_law_and_you\" width=\"543\" height=\"660\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/the_ioc_trademark_law_and_you.png 543w, https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/the_ioc_trademark_law_and_you-246x300.png 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s true! With the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006 (UK), and similar laws pushed through in other countries as a condition of hosting a certain large quadrennial event (US- Amateur Sports Act of 1978; Canada- Olympic and Paralympics Marks Act), any infringing use of IOC &#8216;properties&#8217; (similar to, but stronger than, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":926,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}