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Posting Photos of Olympics Could Land You In Court
hypnosec writes "With London's summer 2012 games due to take place in the very near future, you'd think that organizers would make more of an effort and persuade people to show more of an interest — yet it appears the complete opposite has happened, with strict guidelines banning athletes from posting photos of themselves on Twitter with products that aren't official Olympics sponsors, as well as prohibiting videos or photos to be taken from the athlete's village. Oh and just for good measure, fans could find themselves barred from sharing videos and photos on Facebook and YouTube of themselves delighting in said Olympics action."
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Thank you for hosting the Olympics, now please cower in fear of the copyright police.
I appreciate the Olympics, but I'm not giving up my rights just because my country is hosting them.
No thanks.
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fuck the olympics. It's become exactly what it isn't supposed to be: a corporate circle-jerk to exploit potential for advertising revenue. The athletes come second, if they are lucky.
...was bullshit. That can't be right. Then I RTFA. Holy shit! Way to go London - bring that Orwellian dream to life!
I'd love to see them try to actually take someone to court over this.
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!@#$ you. No Really. !@#$ you.
An event dedicated to showcasing the heights of human athleticism, and you've turned it into a cheap money making operation for yourself. You Suck. I will not be watching the olympics.
...could end land... doesn't make sense. maybe i am too dense.
Posting Photos of Olympics Could End Land You In Court
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No one under 30 cares. It's been xgames where the real athletes compete for more than a decade at this point.
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Is there any actual legal basis for this? Especially concerning spectators?
The courts will be so completely swamped they'll be backed up for years and real criminals will go free due to extreme delays in getting a fair trial.
My guess is any charges of this sort will be tossed out.
you can post as many pictures as you want! (As long as they are taken with a Canon brand camera.)
All your images are owned by us. God, I love the Corporatocracy.
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Are they completely ignorant of the ubiquity of cameras today? Forget the fact that most of those cameras are attached to something that can easily upload images to the world at large.
This deserves a flash-mob style constant bombardment of images from the Olympics being uploaded during the games. Even if we get bored to tears of the sheer volume of Olympics photos uploaded, just overwhelm them with the obviousness of their own stupidity.
How else will they be able to raise enough money to pay the athletes AND the various big name "non-profit" figures that need to get their cut from these games?
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Does anyone even care about the Olympics anymore?
Can we all just agree it's 1999 again, and have a "do over"?
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I'm an American. In order to attend the Olympics, I have to be stripped naked and groped in order to get on the airplane. Anything I do during this procedure that is not ordered by the goon squad is likely to have me arrested, where I can be strip searched again in Jail.
When and if I get on a plane, anything of value in my luggage, such as ipods, cameras, and laptops are likely to be stolen by the baggage handlers, who are not searched and groped by the TSA, apparently.
When and if I land in London, I'm likely to be searched again, what for, who the hell knows, but apparently it's standard procedure. At this point, I discover I've been robbed, but there's no way to file a claim, and yelling about it is just likely to get me arrested.
And when I attend the games, I'm going to be sued for using my eyes and brain as a copyright infringement device, assuming I haven't shelled out for a new camera to replace the one that's stolen. And I would have to post the pictures to the internet, because I can't keep them in the flashcard of the camera, because that will be stolen on the return trip (or confiscated by customs).
Yeah, let me see... Nope, I don't think I will be attending the games, or even watching on TV. Because who knows, they might sue me for watching it on TV. It's going to happen sooner or later, who wants to be the first test case?
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
The Olympics are in London this year? I knew there was an Olympics in London coming up, because huge cost overruns have been in the news. But I thought it was years in the future.
The British Authorities are just retarded when it comes to taking private photographs in public spaces and doing what you wish with them afterwards. Oh they talk a good game about the right to take pictures in public -- and a lot of photographers have been arrested on trumped up flimsy charges in the process. Truth is, the police can cause you a great deal of trouble, and destroy your pictures and cameras in the process, while being completely in the wrong from the absolute beginning.
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They do this every fucking two years, and yet people pretend the Olympics and the IOC are still relevant.
Wow, they still put those on? Who knew. I haven't watched since the early 90s.
Not that I planned on watching these over hyped corporate marketing efforts, but this seals the END for me.
If they can ban taking pictures, there are only steps away from controlling what you can look at, even if it is in public. The terrorist have completely won, and are being courted by the corporations. I surrender. What 16th century fiction novel must I read and obey?
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i thought the olympics were cancelled when we realized black people won every event
Ice dancing?
I appreciate the Olympians. Fuck the Olympics.
politics aside, they have always been about making money
I got to the chocolate box before you, that's why the hard ones have teeth marks.
So what happens when people anonymously post to a sharing site (under a fake account) such as flickr, tumblr, picasa, etc with a digitally altered picture of (for example) a female long jump athlete in flight with a big Tampax logo captioned "Now with wings" and there you share it again via facebook/tumblr. Then it goes viral.
Who do they go for over copyright? The athlete? The facebook/tumblr account holder? Facebook? I don't think so.
If the IOC et. al. are going to be dickheads about this then people will react accordingly just to piss them off, be nice and people will embrace it and we'll all be one. The payoff in being nice for IOC etc. is a whole bunch of FREE advertising via social media.
This adds fuel to the fire over criticisms of how corrupt the IOC is in handing out games' rights (much like FIFA) and hammering anyone who might actually take an interest in the games.
and goodwill...
No, nationalism and the anything-to-win mentality.
Does the IOC maintain a list of the "Official ____ of the Olympics" products?
I want to be on the winning team and buy all of the products that our fine athletes will be pimping non-stop between now and the next Olympics.
Specifically, I need to know which companies they have chosen for the "official" toilet paper, ball-point pen, aerosol cheese product and galvanized roofing nails.
TIA!
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This doesn’t surprise me based on how over-controlling the International Olympic Committee is. For instance, I used to work for a finance company that had the word “Olympic” in it. Their Lawyers threatened the company, so they had to change it to “Arcadia”. You can not use the word “Olympic” in anything due to their trademark on the word. I have even seen a couple business signs with the word “Olympic” painted over with another name. Before then, I was under the silly impression that the word “Olympic” wasn’t anyone’s property. They will come after you at night wearing togas and carrying torches.
Isn't the Olympics about 'amateur' athletes?
Excuse my ignorance.
London 2012 is going to be a farcical affair for start to finish. London traffic is already heavily congested without a major event taking place. With London 2012, its going to be nearly impossible to get around the Capital without getting stuck, stuck, stuck everywhere. Then, there's going to be a ridiculous amount of security all over the Olympics. Thousands of policemen. Helicopters in the sky. Boats out on the Thames. B-sniffing dogs. Biometric (face-recognizing) CCTV cameras anywhere. Then there's the hullaballoo about taking pictures. London 2012 security has been harrassing anyone who takes pictures of Olympics facilities, even from a far distance away (like a Kilometer or Mile), and from public land. Now there's this whole nonsense about only official Olympic sponsors being able to reference the 2012 Olympics, Olympic athletes being banned from tweeting or commenting about the competitions, people watching the Olympics not being allowed to share pictures or videos online. The whole thing is a big, stinking mess before it has even started. Good luck, London. With organizers like these, you'll need it.
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They occasionally try to sue business with "Olympic" in their name. It has happened several times here in Washington State, where we have a large chunk of the state called the "Olympic Peninsula", and thus a lot of businesses with "Olympic" in their name. A few years ago they tried to tell some dry cleaner out in Port Angeles (in the Olympic Peninsula) that they could not call themselves the "Olympic Cleaners".
Fuck 'em.
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What a waste of money. Seriously good luck stopping fans posting images and videos to the "INTERNET"! That's like stopping everyone in London to not check the time.
The likelihood will be proportionate to the amount of money generated by the images. If you really want to see them try, then generate some revenue from anything involving the Olympics and see how long it takes for you to get a cease and desist letter.
should post a photo/break the fule. What are they gonna dom ban everyone or even 1/4 of the athletes?
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This is the craziest shit I ever heard
It's a well known (documented) that the London bid team gave bribes to the IoC to win the bid. Strange how not one person from the IoC or the London politicians are in prison. Better throw people in courts for photographing, that'll show those pesky taxpayers who footed the £10bn ($15bn) and rising bill.
Just to add some detail to the "London" Olympics, the BBC has gutted their sports presentation for this event. They've lost half the Formula One coverage (with it going completely on contract end), and recently horse racing, and other sports too just to pay for the Olympics coverage. So while people wonder why for the next few years there will be no sports to watch on the BBC, they can reminisce on the 20-ish days of political jerk-off "sport" they didn't watch for the Olympics.
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Except lots of people are avoiding travel to London or leaving London for the duration if they live there; various traditional tourist destinations (theatres, etc) have been complaining about lack of bookings. It may well be less congested because of the Olympics.
What sounds completely insane to me is that UK actually had to create special new laws regarding copyright etc in the context of the Olympics for the benefit of IOC here. Do countries really value their sovereignty so little?
I mean, I suppose they can disqualify any athlete who violates the rules, but what do they do with a fan?
In particular, what do they do with a fan from out of the country who attends the opening ceremonies, takes photos, and then returns home to upload them to his website or blog? The person's already out of the country, so what could they do?
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A man was convicted of a minor offence for refusing to obey a police instruction to leave a green space on which an olympic practice pitch was to be built. He was then served a further order banning him from going anywhere near anything connected with the Olympics.
"The asbo, which will be either confirmed or overturned by magistrates at the start of May, prohibits Moore from going within 100 yards of any Olympic-related venue, "route" or the home of participants, officials or spectators, or approaching any road where the Olympic torch will pass that day."
That means a pretty large area. Since he lives in London and cannot possibly know where the homes of all these numerous people are, it seems to mean that he can be arrested for leaving his house.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/apr/17/protester-receives-olympic-asbo
I'm so tired of Olympic rights and all the greed surrounding the Olympics it's time to start boycotting every company that sponsors the Olympics. From now on, if your company has Olympic rings on it's product I'll be passing on it.
Never mind that such events are endless pits where public money gets dumped for no good reason. It doesn't make any financial sense to organize those events, they lose money head over heels.
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Write Olympic sponsors, and say that you will no longer patronize them because of this.
When it comes to national practices, the motto is always "grass is greener" no matter where you are.
don't go. Unfortunately, in reality there will always be enough pleebs that will take them up on their ridiculous offer.
I just can't see why anyone would bother, when you can just stay at home and watch a nice HD feed of the best bits. What a hassle.
When I was in Japan I went to see a Sumo tournament on a whim, and it was great. No rules against photography or video, I shot both just for my own entertainment and had a ball. They have a very different attitude at least when it comes to Sumo.
enjoy the 2012 London Olympics! ... just not too much. ... and definitely not in ways that we might be able to monetize.
Grandma was involved with management for the '32 olympics in LA as a translator/office manager type. She had LOTS of film footage from her movie camera, they ended up buying a lot of it from her for the '84 olympics.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
The UK has had no problem selling its citizens' rights up the river before, why would this time be any different?
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It usually sells them to U.S., which, at least, is another (and supposedly allied) state - not a de facto corporate superentity like IOC with no clear allegiance and the sole goal of making money.
Oh, they value their sovereignty, they're just monetizing it.
You're not one of those freedom hating socialists, are you?
Yay corporate greed and licensing to ruin the Olympics. Sad and inevitable.
Wow. You Brits still have rights? Can I move there? Newcastle seemed nice when I was there a couple of years ago. Do they have webcams in the WC like London?
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
I really don't consider anything that requires a judge to determine the winner a sport anyway (rules officials OK). Not sure I even want to watch.
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This rabid "it's mine, you can't look at/listen to/draw it, much less record it" mentality has always been silly, now it's just ridiculously silly and needs to be challenged. Until it's challenged, it's going to keep getting more ridiculous.
What do you mean? It looks like they're doing a great job promoting international corporations!
I bet you thought the Nazis lost WW II. LOL
I gotta admit my memory ain't it used to be
Can't really remember what happened 4 years ago - that Olympics that took place somewhere, [cranking my old brain] ... somewhere in a communist country, I guess ---
Did they ban the athletes from taking photos back then?
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When did this happen? I'm interested in reading up on that
It's in TFA:
"Britain already has a range of legal protections for brands and copyright holders, but the Olympic Games demand their own rules. Since the Sydney Games in 2000, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has required bidding governments to commit to introducing bespoke legislation to offer a further layer of legal sanction.
In 2006, accordingly, parliament passed the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act, which, together with the Olympic Symbol (Protection) Act of 1995, offers a special level of protection to the Games and their sponsors over and above that already promised by existing copyright or contract law. A breach of these acts will not only give rise to a civil grievance, but is a criminal offence."
So far as I can see from a brief glipse at the law in question, it basically amounts to giving police powers to directly enforce whatever rules IOC comes up to. This, in particular, looks like it allows the police to arrest you on the spot if you're wearing a T-shirt with a wrong logo or anything like that.
There's still time for boiling mobs of furious Islamics to protest with arson and rocks as you know they will. 50/50 the Games will be cancelled or dramatically curtailed. Barring that, the UK will decide that the Games are bad for children, promote bad eating, hooliganism and such, and cancel them on their own. It IS Britain.
This is the craziest thing ive ever read.
An article full of speculation, "could mean"s and "maybe"s, which slashdot swallows as if it's already a fait accompli.
This place is starting to become more of a moronic circlejerk than reddit.
... portrays, in ghastly purples and yellows, Lisa Simpson giving head.
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Another example of the over-commercialization of sport.
Does anyone remember when sporting events were about, well, sport?
Me neither, but surely it hasn't always been this bad has it?
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What is more telling is that you had to write, "B-sniffing dogs" because the UK government will black-bag you for saying 'bomb'.
I think it's way past time to open/crowd-source this type of competition. Get a new all-volenteer group together to create a new global sports competition and tell this particular organization to go fsck itself..
Would take one heck of a Kickstarter fund-raising... Between the sports community, and supporters of Creative Commons.. Possible?
I'm beginning to think it's the only way forward.
The IOC and the Olympics has been nothing more than a deeply corrupt, out-of-control marketing engine and ruthless trademark troll for 30 years. I think the Los Angeles games was the turning point.
They took a paint company on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington to court because they had retail stores in Vancouver in 2010. They lost of course, but it was still a monumental hassle.
There's a good writeup of how crazy the mess was from Vancouver 2010 here: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1777/125/
I'm sure a summer olympics is 100 times worse.
If a corporation does something, you have zero right to enjoy it or profit from it unless it's exactly the way they want you to, as civilian and human rights mean nothing when compared to the REAL powers of the world
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How else will they be able to raise enough money to pay the athletes AND the various big name "non-profit" figures that need to get their cut from these games?
Pay?
The IOC doesn't pay anyone. They require their athletes have no sponsors, make them pay their own way, and them milk them for as many free performances (copyright the IOC, the athletes don't even own the rights to their own images) as they can get out of them. All the while, they demand host cities build them massive stadiums and pay for traffic and populace control; demand that host countries PASS FUCKING LAWS making the FP not just a civil, but a criminal issue; Milk sponsors of every last penny and aggressively prevent you from wearing, at a publicly paid-for stadium usually on public land, even the colors of a non-sponsor. God help you if you wear red-white-and-blue to an event paid for by Coke, prepare to spend the night in a cage, you worthless Pepsi-promoting piece of shit!
Just fuck the IOC. They have zero relevance to the modern world, and have only pushed themselves further and further into that irrelevance - Case in point, search for "Rome 2020", some countries have finally said "y'know? Screw that - Take your ball somewhere else, we don't want you here".
That would be a beautiful kick in the ass of the IOC.
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I boycotted the Olympics many years ago. I remember the exact moment I finally said, "fuck this". I was sitting on the couch with my wife watching a women's swimming event (2000 summer games). It went like this: 15 minutes about American swimmer, several commercials, 15 minutes about another American swimmer, more commercials, 15 minutes about the third American swimmer. More commercials. Discussion about how the only thing in question was the order the Americans would win the three medals. Race starts. Woman from some country they didn't care about beats the crap out of everyone. Immediately switch to another event without even fucking acknowledging the win by the woman from that shitty little country. Except that country was Hungary, where my wife was born and raised and where we were married. We cared a hell of a lot about that fine young (and uber hot) Hungarian swimmer and wanted to not just hear the assholes recognize her win, but also some background about her. I got up from the couch, told my wife I was done with the Olympics, and have not watched a single event (summer or winter) since then.
Their heavy handed reaction to people who post pictures or commentary about the games has only reinforced my desire to never watch their brand-fest again.
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"Heat 4 in the 200m women's qualifier is brought to you by Degree Antiperspirant. Works so good it makes you FAST!"
You know that this is coming.
"Heat 5 in the 200m women's qualifier is brought to you by Vagisil. So clean it makes you FAST!"
And we will all want to kill ourselves.
"Heat 6 in the 200m women's qualifier is brought to you by Tampax. So dry is makes you FAST!"
And then instead we shoot the advertisers. And lawyers, just to be safe.
(No offense meant to the womenfolk here)
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
It's in TFA:
What's an article?
Yeah, that's right, those athletes spend their entire lives training for the Olympics and nobody pays them. They just do it for the love of the sport. /s
There is so much money in the Olympics it makes the NFL look like chump change. The athletes are getting their share. It may not be coming from the IOC, but it may as well be. The entire proposition is corrupt. Yes, there are a few athletes who are not making a lot of money off of the Olympics, but for the most part the athletes that actually win anything there are making big bucks. The entire thing and everyone involved with it from top to bottom is about exploiting it for every dime they can. The IOC can get away with pushing these rules on the athletes because an Olympic appearance is worth so much to the athletes.
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Hit them where it hurts. Boycott the Olympics. Without pics, it would just be Olym.
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Fans are creators of their own works, and their works belong to them, not some arbitrary group (you can call them olympic committee or draconian thug, but if they try to suppress original works by thousands or tens of thousands of artists, they are draconian, regardless).
The IOC should be granted their desire for control. News outlets should ignore the event and turn it over to the advertising department. Any publicity about the event should be billed at standard rates.
This reminds me of a recent Diamond Geezer post lampooning the new legal restrictions on the use of the words "London" and "2012":
He's only half-joking—the British Parliament really did pass a law, the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006, which effectively prohibits the use of these words in certain combinations, except by the Olympics organizing committee and its official sponsors.* According to LOCOG's own guidelines, the prohibited expressions are
*Technically, the only real crime is creating a false association between a business and the Olympics, regardless of what language is used, but the Act singles out a number of particular words and expressions for special consideration by the courts.
Seems like the US to me.
After reading the above, I was quite amused to see the BBC's cheery comment on Google+ that
The motto of the London Olympics has also been revealed: "Inspire a generation".
Of course, acting like fascists does tend to inspire people, just not usually in a way the fascists agree with...
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You are in your first year up until you pass your first birthday. You aren't in your zeroth year.
Oddly, enough, this is rather odd given (I take it you ARE USian) the USA don't have a "ground floor", they have "first floor" on the ground level. There is no zero floor.
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After that was pointed out to me, I couldn't take their "Olympic Symbol (Protection) Act of 1995" seriously.
and it has been for a long time.
I can remember 16 or 20 years ago I was watching an olympics boxing match on TV and the ref stopped the match twice because one of the boxers had the wrong logo on front of his boxing trousers. They put some tape on it. Then they had to re-adjust the tape. Then I stopped caring and watching the olympics.
Countries (well - leaders) are desperate to win the bid. They get to stand around, look like winners, and hope that some of the magic will rub off on their next election campaign. At the time of bidding, the papers are either reporting win or lose regarding the bid. There isn't any examination of what is being agreed in order to win.
As a result, they'll swallow any crap the IOC (or football world cup, or whatever) thrust down their throat as conditions of bidding.
My understanding is that these rules are now a standard, and are required every cycle. Of course, as the IOC gets away with one batch of craziness, they ask for more next time round.
I'll certainly be doing my best to boy ignore the olympics.
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To me what would make a lot more sense than trying to stuff thousand genies back into a thousand bottles would be to slap branding over everything everywhere, so that any images taken would inherently contain loads of advertising.
Furthermore if they made the branding really cool (like giant 3D statues of logos) they would get a LOT of people taking pictures with it!
Then let anyone record the games. Sure you'd lose a little re-broadcasting revenue but not much given the quality. Furthermore if they simply sold raw feeds of every single event they could make a TON of money from people picking and choosing what to watch.
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They used to pretend that the Olympic games was about bringing nations together for healthy competition and a celebration of accomplishment and blah blah blah... good will, happiness, rainbows and wheaties.
They are no longer making any effort at all to make people believe in this crap. Now it's all about "look at the performing monkeys! They do it all for free!! you look? you pay!!!!" What's this? No friends or family or even the participants themselves can have pictures of themselves "doing olympic stuff"? Really?
I imagine somewhere buried deep in the legalese the olympic people were granted exclusive rights to everything and that it's all "perfectly legal." But isn't this just another example of "legal != right"?
I think the Olympics will go ahead very well - they simply have to.
It's the ever increasing amount of public money required to make that happen that worries me.
London 2012 is going to be a farcical affair for start to finish. London traffic is already heavily congested without a major event taking place. With London 2012, its going to be nearly impossible to get around the Capital without getting stuck, stuck, stuck everywhere. Then, there's going to be a ridiculous amount of security all over the Olympics. Thousands of policemen. Helicopters in the sky. Boats out on the Thames. B-sniffing dogs. Biometric (face-recognizing) CCTV cameras anywhere.
Then there's the hullaballoo about taking pictures. London 2012 security has been harrassing anyone who takes pictures of Olympics facilities, even from a far distance away (like a Kilometer or Mile), and from public land. Now there's this whole nonsense about only official Olympic sponsors being able to reference the 2012 Olympics, Olympic athletes being banned from tweeting or commenting about the competitions, people watching the Olympics not being allowed to share pictures or videos online. The whole thing is a big, stinking mess before it has even started. Good luck, London. With organizers like these, you'll need it.
The easiest thing to do is treat the inside of the M25 circle as its own bizarro-world and if possible you should stay away. This will be a total disaster and the rest of us (especially us lot in Scotland) are waiting for the inevitable fallout. It will help with the independence vote in 2014......
Yeah, and don't forget the Astrophysics video's on YouTube, specially ones to do with group theory, dark energy, inflation, Leonard Suskind and Engadget podcasts about dogs wearing spectacles.
Actually I haven't seriously watched any Olympics since 1980 on account of having a life, though I can watch some Wintersports because I enjoy snowboarding holidays.
I am seriously not looking forward to the wall to wall coverage of this soft drink and leisure wear advertising festival coming up in London this summer.
The brand protection bullshit being talked about sums up just what a mindfuck the whole thing is. I hope the London tax payers enjoy paying extra taxes for the rest of their lives to fund this idiotic charade.
Facts are history now plebs have politics for religion on social media.
And one wonders why the olympics still go on, let alone command so much power, when the governments hosting them don't even break even on their investment, as far as I remember reading in the past.
Any image of the Olympics BECOMES the Olympics. Of course, since your mind forms an image of the Olympics when you watch the Olympics, if you stare at the Olympics too long YOU will become the Olympics.
Even if you've gotta fake photos, EVERYONE shold post photos of themselves at or enjoying the Olympics. Especially with non-official products. OVERLOAD their censorship / take-down efforts!!! heh heh =D
Fucking lawyers!
strict guidelines banning athletes from posting photos of themselves on Twitter with products that aren't official Olympics sponsors
I guess we're going to see a lot of photos of naked Olympic athletes.
Are you basing your sarcasm on anything specific, or just baseless supposition? Because for many athletes, simply making it onto the olympic team is a life goal and separate from getting paid for it. I'm not sure how their finances work (you seem to know all the details, so please share) but they aren't getting rich off it. Maybe if they get that coveted Wheaties sponsorship, but that has nothing to do with the IOC and their business model.
All it takes is for some high profile athletes to deliberately defy these rules. What is the IOC going to do? They can't stop them from competing, the athletes are the reason people watch the Olympics. If they fine the athletes it will just be all over the news, resulting in massive brand exposure for whatever non-official brand the athlete uses. It will be a PR nightmare for them.
I can't speak on the UK, but in the US there was a (or several) court cases that said the photographer owned the copyright of whatever they took a picture of. Does anybody know the exact court cases?
Why not build a big opaque dome over the stadium and only let the athletes in? This should solve all their IP issues!
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Furthermore if they simply sold raw feeds of every single event they could make a TON of money from people picking and choosing what to watch.
No kidding. I love the Mountain Biking and BMX events, but they're never actually on television. Instead, it's three hours of Shot Put!
It's these guys: Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP. The people that started this firm used copyright to help make the 1984 Los Angeles games the first profitable Olympics in ages. Their model has been used ever since. It also caught the eye of Hollywood and, well, need I say more?
On the other hand, these guys are Google's favorite firm and are the definite go-to firm for any litigation against Apple.
Sorry to make your heads explode.
Another thing organizers would do if they were really smart would be to say if you get a ticket, you automatically allow any footage of events you take to be used royalty free my the Olympic committee. Then they could crawl YouTube for alternate event footage and provide it in the paid content, I don't even think people would care as long as they otherwise retained copyright.
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In response to your reasonable request, my response is:
No. Fuck you.
I carry what I need for a trip, pack for n-1 kg (taking into account the lowest bag weight allowed to the total flight legs) and I pack as I always have done.. everything balled up, tetrised in, soft stuff on the outside, breakables / fragile in the middle.. and as a general rule *I* do not open my bag once it has been zipped and locked.
I assure you there is nothing in my bag worth a stranger's attention. The bag is locked with a small lock and at least one tie. Unless someone rips the zippers open nothing goes in or out until I get to my destination.
I would ask why you *need* to open people's bags? Seriously? We go for decades on a certain level of trust.. and now this.
Look, it really sucks that you have such a crappy job. I really hope that you are not one of those perverts on the front line fondling people's junk and traumatising kids and generally making people wish that your hand is stuck up their ass.. but I do sympathise. Get out. Move on as fast as you can. Get any other job.. but get out.
If you detect no sympathy from me towards bag handlers generally then you are correct. After watching what they do with bags, how they toss them around and the general disrespect I have seen form them towards other people's property... KI have no respect for the profession.
Meanwhile, this is just another reason I won't be travelling to the UK... the whole 'treat people who come to your country with money to spend as criminals' is quite galling. I am guessing that they don't need me, or anyone like me. I hope they enjoy the olympics.. without pics.. without me.
The Olympics used to represent what great physical feats any of us could do if only we got off our lazy butts and exercised. Now they represent the physical achievements of genetic freaks that are largely the product of their natural endowments, and that are impossible to match by an average human being. Sure, it is mildly amusing to find out what the ultimate capabilities of the human body can be once it's engineered for one specific task. But it is certainly not inspiring, and is about as entertaining as seeing the "world's tallest man" at the circus.
I appreciate the Olympics, but I'm not giving up my rights just because my country is hosting them.
What rights do you think you are giving up?
So far as I can see from a brief glipse at the law in question, it basically amounts to giving police powers to directly enforce whatever rules IOC comes up to. This, in particular, looks like it allows the police to arrest you on the spot if you're wearing a T-shirt with a wrong logo or anything like that.
Wearing a tshirt? Where do you read that. I didn't read the whole law, but what I did read (and what they can arrest you for) revolves around trade. I don't know the general UK laws, but I do know elsewhere they require permits to sale stuff, and you can be arrested if you don't have the permits.
Come on, lets Striesand them. And throw in a Rick Roll for good measure.
19 Advertising regulations
(1)The Secretary of State shall make regulations about advertising in the vicinity of London Olympic events. ...
(2)In making the regulations the Secretary of State—
(a)shall aim to secure compliance with obligations imposed on any person by the Host City Contract,
(b)shall have regard to any requests or guidance from the International Olympic Committee, and
(c)shall also have regard to amenity and public safety.
(3)The regulations shall specify, or provide criteria for determining—
(a)the places in respect of advertising in which the regulations apply,
(b)the nature of the advertising in respect of which the regulations apply, and
(c)what is, or is not, to be treated for the purposes of the regulations as advertising in the vicinity of a place.
(4)The regulations may apply in respect of advertising of any kind including, in particular—
(a)advertising of a non-commercial nature, and
(b)announcements or notices of any kind.
(5)The regulations may apply in respect of advertising in any form including, in particular—
(a)the distribution or provision of documents or articles,
(b)the display or projection of words, images, lights or sounds, and
(c)things done with or in relation to material which has or may have purposes or uses other than as an advertisement.
(8)The regulations—
(a)may prohibit action of a specified kind or in specified circumstances,
(b)may impose obligations on persons who—
(i)take action in relation to an advertisement, or
(ii)have an interest in or responsibility for a product or service to which an advertisement relates,
(c)may impose obligations on persons who own, occupy or have responsibility for the management of land, premises or other property,
(d)may, in particular, impose on a person an obligation to take steps to ensure—
(i)that other persons do not take action of a particular kind;
(ii)that a situation is not permitted to continue, and
(e)shall have effect despite any consent or permission granted (whether before or after the commencement of the regulations) by any landowner, local authority or other person.
21 Offence
(1)A person commits an offence if he contravenes regulations under section 19.
(2)It shall be a defence for a person charged with an offence under subsection (1) to prove that the contravention of the regulations occurred—
(a)without his knowledge, or
(b)despite his taking all reasonable steps to prevent it from occurring or (where he became aware of it after its commencement) from continuing.
(3)A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) shall be liable—
(a)on conviction on indictment, to a fine, or
(b)on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £20,000.
(4)A court by or before which a person is convicted of an offence under subsection (1) may require him to pay to a police authority or to the Olympic Delivery Authority sums in respect of expenses reasonably incurred in taking action under section 22(1) in relation to the matters to which the offence relates.
39 Offences: arrest
(1)At the end of Schedule 1A to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (arrestable offences) add—
“London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006
27BAn offence under section 21(1), 27(1) or 31(1) of the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006 (unauthorised advertising, trading and ticket-sales).”
"freakish exceptions in a population of 7 billion"
Was this in reference to viewers under 30, or the athletes?
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
They can check the time on their own watch, for the moment. They just can't use "Big Ben"© to check the time.
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling