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Avery Brundage (right), vice president of the IOC and president of the USOC, speaks to the media at the London Olympics, 1948. The report is copyright 1949; there is no indication that it was ever registered with the copyright office or was renewed in 1976 or 1977 per the volumes of copyright entries available on Google Books.
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