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OLYMPIC INSIGNIA PROTECTION ACT 1987 - SECT 1A Simplified outline

OLYMPIC INSIGNIA PROTECTION ACT 1987 - SECT 1A

Simplified outline

    The following is a simplified outline of this Act:

  Chapter   2 of this Act protects the olympic insignia by:

  (a)   making the AOC the owner of copyright in the olympic symbol; and

  (b)   making the AOC the owner of certain olympic designs; and

  (c)   providing that the use of the olympic motto, the olympic symbol and certain other olympic images is to be taken to be contrary to law in certain circumstances.

  Chapter   3 of this Act prohibits the commercial use of certain olympic expressions unless the user holds a licence granted by the AOC.