[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 65 (Tuesday, May 11, 2004)]
[Senate]
[Page S5229]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mr. CAMPBELL:
  S. 2407. A bill to clarify the intellectual property rights of the 
United States Olympic Committee; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
  Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. President, I am introducing an amendment to the Ted 
Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act that will serve to protect the 
limited resources available to the United States Olympic Committee 
(``USOC'') to support America's Olympic athletes. This amendment would 
not expand the protections afforded to the USOC under existing law, but 
would clarify the broad scope of the existing statutory language that 
guarantees the USOC's exclusive right to commercial use of Olympic 
marks and terminology in the United States. Congress originally granted 
these rights to the USOC so that the USOC, through its licensing and 
sponsorship program, would have the ability to raise funds privately to 
support United States athletes and programs. Unauthorized use of 
Olympic marks and terminology by third parties dilutes the value of 
these marks and terminology and diminishes the USOC's ability to 
fulfill the mission mandated by Congress. This amendment will help 
ensure that the USOC can devote more of its resources to assisting 
athletes as opposed to funding legal actions necessary to prevent 
foreign or domestic entities from circumventing the broad statutory 
rights granted to the USOC.
  I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the 
Record.
  There being no objection, the bill was ordered to be printed in the 
Record, as follows:

                                S. 2407

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Support Our Olympic Athletes 
     Act of 2004''.

     SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF 
                   UNITED STATES OLYMPIC COMMITTEE.

       Chapter 2205 of title 36, United States Code (commonly 
     referred to as the ``Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports 
     Act''), is amended in section 220506(c)(3) by inserting ``the 
     words `Olympik', `Olympick', `Olympika', `Olympicka', 
     `Olympica', or `Olympikus','' after ``the words described in 
     subsection (a)(4) of this section,''.
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