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. (cont'd) does not prevent registration. Where the Copyright Office is aware that a use of certain elements within a work may be in violation of existing law, it may inform the applicant of the possible restriction and direct the applicant to the agency involved. Some examples of restricted names and characters are "Olympic," "Olympiad" (36 U.S.C. 380); "Woodsy Owl" (18 U.S.C. 711a) and "Smokey Bear" (18 U.S.C. 711).

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