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IOC Orders Blogger To Take Down Video

Posted by kdawson on from the cone-of-ownership-descends dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The International Olympic Committee has ordered a blogger to remove a video from his website showing the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili. The IOC asserts that it owns all the rights to all images taken at the games, and only licensed broadcasters can use them. However, the blogger, Stephen Pate, points to a Canadian law that allows copyrighted images to be used in newsworthy cases."

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  1. Re:IANAL, but... by Obfuscant · · Score: 0, Troll
    These complaints, on the other hand, are probative and possibly admissible to show that the IOC had notice, among other things.

    The real question is, how many lugers said "I will not go down that course because it is unsafe?"

    As far as I know, all the people who participate in luge are adults, able to reason for themselves, not mentally incompetent in the eyes of the court, and willing to participate in a sport where people have been killed because they made simple mistakes.

    I also know that every one of the lugers had the opportunity to see the track in full and make practice slow-speed runs to determine for themselves the risks, and then decide if the risks were worth the returns. Not only the actual participants, but their coaches as well.

    The fact that not a single one of them refused to participate would seem to be admissible to show that the risks were considered, by the presumed premiere experts in the field, to be acceptable and therefore reasonable.

    Yes, of course, it's sad someone died. Blaming the people who let him make his own decision to participate is wrong.