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To: lugsoul

It is a dictionary word. It is a historic word. It is a word for a specific location and set of athletic events.

And the bottom line is that it is NOT a copyright infringement. If it were, they'd sue. If it were, the President's lawyers would tell him to pull the ad.

No one's suing and no one's pulling, so we must have some agreement that it's not a copyright infringement and is, instead, legitimate use of a common word.

You realize, don't you, that without a lawsuit or a pulled ad that your argument evaporates?


47 posted on 08/26/2004 9:18:18 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army and Supporting Bush/Cheney 2004!)
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To: xzins

Exactly.

If the Olympic Committee has a problem with this, call out the lawyers and Bring It On.

They won't because they can't. Euroweeni alert.


48 posted on 08/26/2004 9:19:51 AM PDT by Peach (The Clinton's pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: xzins
"No one's suing and no one's pulling, so we must have some agreement that it's not a copyright infringement and is, instead, legitimate use of a common word."

A perfect example of your typical lack of logic. Can you read? There are 3 days left before they pull it. No one is going to get anything done in the legal arena in that time frame. Then it is moot.

For future reference, since you seem to lack an understanding of this basic point - the failure of one to exercise a legal right, or the decision not to pursue a legal right, DOES NOT MEAN that the right does not exist.

If your argument had even a shred of validity, all those unauthorized businesses who have been targeted by the USOC could just tell them to pound sand and it would be no problem.

51 posted on 08/26/2004 9:22:45 AM PDT by lugsoul (Until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside.)
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