Comments on: Mention the Olympics at your peril

By: Axel Kassel

Axel Kassel — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 00:14:15 +0000

Would not the utterance, “The Olympics are operated by a gang of authoritarian nitwits” be protected by the fair-use commentary principle?

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 21:00:43 +0000

By discouraging popular involvement in olympics related activities, they are also diminishing the significance of the event in the popular culture. Ultimately, another step down the road to making the olympics just another high money sporting event.

By: Regret

Regret — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 19:35:34 +0000

I propose a compromise: We refer to them as the The Games Which Must Not Be Named (especially not named after a mountain range in Western Washington State) or TGWMNBN(ennaamriWWS) for short.

By: Robert Allen

Robert Allen — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 13:24:57 +0000

Retweets? Good luck policing that!

And there’s always stories about “Olympic Deli” or “Olympic Dry Cleaner” being sued. Here was the first one I got from the google:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120713/06513919689/us-olympic-committee-forces-30-year-old-philidelphia-gyro-restaraunt-to-change-its-name.shtml

There are many others.

Interesting they never went after “Special Olympics” (I imagine they made some sort of arrangement with them.)