Going to the Olympics ?

SussexBlue · 27 Apr 2012

Then might as well leave your camera at home http://www.petapixel.com/2012/04/25/london-olympics-wont-allow-sharing-of-photos-and-video-via-social-networks/ :shrug:
And just how are they going to police that

Bristolian · 27 Apr 2012

Enough already! There's a thread about this on here already

SussexBlue · 27 Apr 2012

Bristolian said:
Enough already! There's a thread about this on here already

Thanks for that, quite obviously missed by me !!

Daryl · 27 Apr 2012

Why would anyone want to support a money grabbing tight fisted useless organization such as the Olympics?

all they want is to fine,sue take to court anyone who uses symbols logos and sponsored items....

They have ruined the good name of sport... Money money and fleecing us all is all the Olympics is all about!!!

Mirus Lux · 28 Apr 2012

Daryl said:
Why would anyone want to support a money grabbing tight fisted useless organization such as the Olympics?

all they want is to fine,sue take to court anyone who uses symbols logos and sponsored items....

They have ruined the good name of sport... Money money and fleecing us all is all the Olympics is all about!!!

Amen to that.

acetone · 28 Apr 2012

Daryl said:
Why would anyone want to support a money grabbing tight fisted useless organization such as the Olympics?

all they want is to fine,sue take to court anyone who uses symbols logos and sponsored items....

They have ruined the good name of sport... Money money and fleecing us all is all the Olympics is all about!!!

Not sure it's the Olympics but defo the London Olympics, I now hear they are looking at ways to charge people to watch the cycle road race ( on public roads)

At the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010 , you could take any camera anywhere, I know people were taking 400mm and 500mm to the downhill with no issues at all. Also there were complaints that people could not close enough to the flame/caldron because of a security fence surrounding it, so the organisers removed the fence can't see london doing anything to help the public.

London is becoming a right shambles what with the total farce of ticket sales and all the money grabbing.

andya700 · 28 Apr 2012

acetone said:
Not sure it's the Olympics but defo the London Olympics, I now hear they are looking at ways to charge people to watch the cycle road race ( on public roads)

So how would they achieve that then?

acetone · 28 Apr 2012

andy700 said:
So how would they achieve that then?

OK not all the route, but the best bits in Box Hill where they will pass NINE times.

Politicians have also weighed into the issue. London Assembly chair of the economic, culture and sport committee, Dee Doocey, noted such a move, which would be the first time the critical mountain stage had to be paid for by spectators at an Olympic Games, was contrary to Locog's earlier position.
"This would be dreadful and most regrettable, it is totally against what Locog has been saying all along,"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ol...tch-road-cycling-events-in-Box-Hill-area.html

I now see that Locog have produced 70-page booklet for spectators on how to negotiate Greenwich Park on Horse cross-country day . :bonk:

inkiboo · 29 Apr 2012

Daryl said:
Why would anyone want to support a money grabbing tight fisted useless organization such as the Olympics?

all they want is to fine,sue take to court anyone who uses symbols logos and sponsored items....

They have ruined the good name of sport... Money money and fleecing us all is all the Olympics is all about!!!

You might want to have a word with the athletes who see this as the pinnacle of their career. Or just carry on with your ill-informed rant.

inkiboo · 29 Apr 2012

acetone said:
At the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010 , you could take any camera anywhere, I know people were taking 400mm and 500mm to the downhill with no issues at all. Also there were complaints that people could not close enough to the flame/caldron because of a security fence surrounding it, so the organisers removed the fence can't see london doing anything to help the public.

London is becoming a right shambles what with the total farce of ticket sales and all the money grabbing.

You really have no idea about the Olympics.

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1029&message=34252230

"Thank you for your interest in the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic
Winter Games.

Spectators will be allowed to bring cameras, however, recording images
for commercial purposes (any type of selling of the image) will be
prohibited."

This really is standard stuff, in the same way you can't publish photos from football, rugby and nearly all sports events in the UK.

broadway · 29 Apr 2012

inkiboo said:
You really have no idea about the Olympics.

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1029&message=34252230

"Thank you for your interest in the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic
Winter Games.

Spectators will be allowed to bring cameras, however, recording images
for commercial purposes (any type of selling of the image) will be
prohibited."
N
This really is standard stuff, in the same way you can't publish photos from football, rugby and nearly all sports events in the UK

Since when has it been commercial purposes to post a picture to Facebook?

StewartR · 29 Apr 2012

broadway said:
Since when has it been commercial purposes to post a picture to Facebook?

The bit of the ticketing rules to which you are (probably) referring is the one which says that images captured by spectators at London 2012 events "cannot be used for any purpose other than for private and domestic purposes". The point is that posting something on Facebook *might* not count as "private and domestic".

In copyright law, private use of copyrighted images is generally allowed. But if you posted somebody else's copyrighted photo on Facebook, you wouldn't be able to claim it was private use, and you could still be liable for breach of copyright.

So if Facebook isn't "private use" for copyright issues, is it "private use" for Olympics images? I don't know. You'd have to ask a lawyer.

boyfalldown · 29 Apr 2012

Daryl said:
Why would anyone want to support a money grabbing tight fisted useless organization such as the Olympics?

all they want is to fine,sue take to court anyone who uses symbols logos and sponsored items....

They have ruined the good name of sport... Money money and fleecing us all is all the Olympics is all about!!!

inkiboo said:
You might want to have a word with the athletes who see this as the pinnacle of their career. Or just carry on with your ill-informed rant.

Its not ill informed though ...might be strongly worded but actually right. Of course those athletes would be welcome to come and discuss the damage the 'pinnacle of their careers' is doing to a large number of small business anytime. To para phrase the Telegraph the olympic is nothing more then an £11bn advertising campaign for some of the worlds worst companies

inkiboo · 29 Apr 2012

broadway said:
Since when has it been commercial purposes to post a picture to Facebook?

Well it's certainly for commerical purposes for Facebook.

LOCOG will not go after an individual who posts a photo on Facebook (they have already said that). What they will do is go after anyone who is trying to gain commercially from it.

acetone · 30 Apr 2012

inkiboo said:
You really have no idea about the Olympics.

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1029&message=34252230

"Thank you for your interest in the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic
Winter Games.

Spectators will be allowed to bring cameras, however, recording images
for commercial purposes (any type of selling of the image) will be
prohibited."

This really is standard stuff, in the same way you can't publish photos from football, rugby and nearly all sports events in the UK.

inkiboo · 30 Apr 2012

acetone said:
Now you say I have no idea about the Olympics, but some of us are not stupid enough to make a statement with out being able to back it up

Do please enlighten me as to how many Olympic games you have covered as an accredited photographer.

acetone · 30 Apr 2012

Who the **** is talking about accredited photographers, the whole thread is about SPECTATORS taking photo.

inkiboo · 30 Apr 2012

I'll take that to be none then.

acetone · 30 Apr 2012

inkiboo said:
I'll take that to be none then.

I'm not having chicken for tea tonight either which is just as relevant to the topic of this thread.

inkiboo · 1 May 2012

I say again, you have no idea about the Olympics. I covered both Beijing and Vancouver so know first hand the restrictions and experiences of photographers and specatators.

Matt · 1 May 2012

We can hear the zippers being opened all the way up in staff room. Please stop talking to each other in such disrespectful ways, you wouldn't talk to your mother like that, don't do it here.

POAH · 2 May 2012

andy700 said:
So how would they achieve that then?

They would put up stands at the side of the road

POAH · 2 May 2012

matty said:
We can hear the zippers being opened all the way up in staff room.

Make sure you get a reach around :lol:

inkiboo · 2 May 2012

matty said:
We can hear the zippers being opened all the way up in staff room. Please stop talking to each other in such disrespectful ways, you wouldn't talk to your mother like that, don't do it here.

If she were still alive, I'd happily tell her she had no idea about the Olympics!

andya700 · 2 May 2012

POAH said:
They would put up stands at the side of the road

Ah well, that will be 9.6 miles of stands (both sides of the roads I assume?) then - no worries :lol:

POAH · 2 May 2012

andy700 said:
Ah well, that will be 9.6 miles of stands (both sides of the roads I assume?) then - no worries

Only in some areas not the whole course.

boyfalldown · 2 May 2012

andy700 said:
Ah well, that will be 9.6 miles of stands (both sides of the roads I assume?) then - no worries

over a SSI and an area they are trying to 'protect' as well

POAH said:
Only in some areas not the whole course.

that is just some areas :lol:

the 9 odd miles is the section they're talking about charging for but the whole thing is over 150 miles long

andya700 · 2 May 2012

POAH said:
Only in some areas not the whole course.

Yeah, Box Hill will be the prime point.
I wonder what would happen if the organisers of the Tour de France tried the same thing on Alpe d'Huez or any of the other iconic viewpoints?

andya700 · 2 May 2012

boyfalldown said:
over a SSI and an area they are trying to 'protect' as well

that is just some areas the 9 odd miles is the section they're talking about charging for but the whole thing is over 150 miles long

9.6 miles X 14 laps = ?
Then add on a little bit for the start and finish.

Going to the Olympics ?

TPer Emeritus