LOCOG Censures Use Of ‘2012’

By · June 15, 2011 at 11:30 am · 4 Comments · Latest News · Report an error ·

Or should that be 20**? The Great Exhibition Company have been told by Games organisers that using the year formerly known as 2012 in their forthcoming Great Exhibition could result in legal action.

LOCOG cite the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006 which is supposed to prevent any unauthorised association between the 2012 Olympics and other people or businesses. Stratford’s Café Olympic fell foul of the same regulations earlier this year. In the case of The Great Exhibition Company, LOCOG claims that ‘2012’ is now synonymous with the Olympics.

Fortunately, the cinematic catastrophe-fest starring John Cusack has escaped LOCOG’s attention. As have the 42,451 books listed on Amazon with the-year-after-2011-but-before-2013 in the title.

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  • http://twitter.com/rentforthegames RentForTheGames

    There is a Greek Restaurant in Vancouver called ‘Olympia something’ that VANOC tried to go after, but they failed, the place had been around for the last 30 years or something crazy, and it was deemed they were allowed to use the term as they existed well before the Olympic Committee decided to start going after innocent businesses. 

  • http://twitter.com/rentforthegames RentForTheGames

    There is a Greek Restaurant in Vancouver called ‘Olympia something’ that VANOC tried to go after, but they failed, the place had been around for the last 30 years or something crazy, and it was deemed they were allowed to use the term as they existed well before the Olympic Committee decided to start going after innocent businesses. 

  • Mike Paterson

    They can whistle. Intel attempted this with 286, 386, 486 etc and failed in court, hence the Pentium chip. 

  • http://twitter.com/rentforthegames RentForTheGames

    Somehow the IOC seems to have a great deal more power than giant companies, it’s a bit scary. 

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