Beijing Officials Ramp Up Olympic Marketing Ban

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With exactly one month to go until the start of the summer Olympics, officials in Beijing have ramped up efforts to ban, remove and eliminate ads throughout the city and elsewhere that either promote non-Olympic sponsors or contain any unauthorized use of Olympics logos and images in ads.

According to the Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games, inspection teams “will be dispatched to airports, railway stations, places near Olympic venues and other public areas” beginning July 11 to observe whether ads contain unauthorized Olympic logos and the Beijing Olympic signs.

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