Olympic Cellars Winery is not a commercial threat to the United States Olympic Committee

[rebeccafrog]

Unfortunately, the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act of 1998 gave the U.S. Olympic Committee exclusive commercial control of the word "Olympic." There's an exception for businesses located on the Olympic Peninsula, but only in Washington west of the Cascade mountains. So now the USOC is trying to bully the Olympic Cellars Winery into

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[crinklequirk]

Per the quiz (and the limited answers to their questions), "I'm Quatchi!"

http://www.vancouver2010.com/mascot/en/game_mascotquiz.php

Regarding the rest, the language is clear. What is not clear is if the winery will have good enough legal aid plus a particular kind of judge, or else they're just going to _lose_ their website.

Which is just wrong in sooooo many ways - including, oh I don't know: would a mail-order catalog be allowed? be substantial enough to be threatening - or did someone just do a Google search for "Olympic" and find their "competition" for the name? I.e., anybody else out there w/the name Olympic who have websites being sued, too?

Not to mention, you can have a website even if only your employees use it, or *gasp* the folk in your town.

grr. Stupid greedy giganto-corporations. World is closer to Bladerunner and Bubblegum every day. :|

[baliset]

Does Ted Stevens do anything useful in Congress?!

[rebeccafrog]

Not as far as I know. He was intimately involved in getting Alaska's statehood, including teaming up with Margaret Atwood to engage in some illegal lobbying from within the executive branch (he worked for the Alaska Department of the Interior at the time), but Wikipedia isn't supplying anything useful he's done since joining the Senate in 1968.