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With the London Olympics getting such a big push from Bejing, I got really excited about putting on a Olympic themed developer event (even designed the above during my Sunday afternoon): would have called it "The Developer Olympics", with event accordingly themed. But alas copyright, or rather in this case, trademark got in the way. Apparently, despite the symbol being past it's copyright infringement date (circa 1930s), it is still protected under trademark law in almost all countries (along with Mickey Mouse of course). Wonder if anyone will ever realize that the thing humans do the best is copy (ironic we should make laws against what we do best?)! Seems to me the only difference is if someone manages to copy two or more people at the same time that they think they did something 'original' (in that case I would like to claim originality for the above design as I stole it from Google I/O and the Olympics Rings!)? Well copyright should be a fun thing to watch over the coming years as machines are now the only thing better than humans at copying (and pasting), napster and Viacom/youtube are just the start! Trivia Question: How many times did I break copyright/trademark law in this post?

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