Howard Walker, Staff Reporter
Robert Bryan, executive director for Jamaica Cricket 2007 Limited, the local organising committee for the ICC Cricket World Cup. - JUNIOR DOWIE/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
THE LOCAL Organising Committee (LOC) for the ICC WI 2007, Jamaica Cricket 2007 Limited, is moving to clamp down on its first illegal vendor for breaches of the copyright act.
This was announced yesterday during a seminar to sensitise the public on the impact of Cricket World Cup 2007 on the Kingston Metropolitan Area at the Jamaica Conference Centre.
Robert Bryan, executive director of Jamaica Cricket 2007 Limited, showed the large gathering on hand, a picture of a building in the downtown area that had the words "Welcome Cricket 2007" spread across the front in a banner fashion.
"The words Cricket World Cup 2007 used in tandem with World Cup, indicate an association with Cricket World Cup 2007. It's a legal matter, not an emotional issue," said Bryan.
"A lawyer is going to go down there, which is not me, not a Jamaican lawyer, it is going to be a lawyer representing a company called the Global Cricket Corporation, that is going to serve that man a notice that gives him a precise amount of time to paint out that slogan," he pointed out.
According to Bryan, if persons want to use these marks, then they will have to pay the persons who owns them.
Residents from a wide cross-section of Kingston and St. Andrew packed the Jamaica Conference Centre to listen to the business opportunities available to them.
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The Bed and Breakfast Home Stay Programme was one which really caught the attention of most. It would allow fully credited residents to provide accommo-dation for the expected thousand of tourists.
A brief video clip of the newly-launched Team Jamaica was shown, highlighting all the aesthetics associated with Jamaican culture.
It is expected to sensitise the public on how to grab a slice of the business opportunity pie, plus the upgrading of the key areas in Kingston and St. Andrew.
