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Message:: [QUOTE="satootoko, post: 155988, member: 669"]That is a trademark, not a copyright.  There is a HUGE difference between the two concepts. You can not copyright an idea, only the specific form in which you have expressed it.  Copyrights are limited in time, and when they expire the material is in the public domain.  For example, Mark Twain's known works are all in the public domain, but if his heirs found a previously unpublished short story, it could be copyrighted. A trademark is a visible means of identifying the goods or services provided by the holder.  They are only valid in connection with those goods or services.  The Olympic movement can prevent you from using the word in connection with a sporting event, but not otherwise, so if you have an ice cream  store on Olympic Blvd. in Los Angeles, feel free to sell your Olympic Fudge Sundaes.  Trademarks can be lost by lack of use or failure to take action against infringers (that's why "aspirin" is now a generic word), but otherwise they go on forever.  That's why you can't legally market a soft drink under the name "Coca Cola" or in a bottle shaped like theirs, in the 21st Century, even though the marks were first established at the end of the 19th Century. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]