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From deadspin:
http://deadspin.com/5903795/posting...m-the-london-olympics-could-land-you-in-court
• Branding police are going around Olympic stadia taping over or scratching out non-sponsor brands and logos on things like toilets and sinks. Enjoy that job.
• Athletes are FORBIDDEN from discussing any non-sponsor products. Want a Gatorade (made by Pepsi) after your 10k training run? Keep it to yourself. London 2012 is exclusive to Powerade (and Coca-Cola).
• Local businesses have already been threatened with legal action for using any combination of two or more of the following numbers and words: Olympic, London, 2012, summer, or games. Let's try them all in a sentence: "The people behind the London 2012 Olympic summer games are cretins."
• Poses and gestures that are even reminiscent of the Games are verboten. At Barcelona ‘92, British sprinter Sally Gunnell won gold in the 400m hurdles and famously draped herself in the Union Jack as she celebrated. When she attempted to strike a similar pose during a recent photo shoot for non-sponsor easyJet, she got smacked down because British Air is an official Olympic sponsor (and apparently now a co-owner of the British flag).
• Attendees aren't allowed to post videos and photos from the events to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or other social media. They can only share images from competitions for private use, seemingly to prevent any unauthorized exploitation of the world's greatest "amateur" sporting event. And "private" is to be taken in the most limited sense possible—as in just you and your closest friends, with the lights out and the blinds drawn. A strict interpretation of the rules would consider it a violation to upload, say, pictures of yourself in the stands during a basketball game to your blog. It's unclear how any of this will be enforced, but transgressors better keep a bag packed.
http://deadspin.com/5903795/posting...m-the-london-olympics-could-land-you-in-court
• Branding police are going around Olympic stadia taping over or scratching out non-sponsor brands and logos on things like toilets and sinks. Enjoy that job.
• Athletes are FORBIDDEN from discussing any non-sponsor products. Want a Gatorade (made by Pepsi) after your 10k training run? Keep it to yourself. London 2012 is exclusive to Powerade (and Coca-Cola).
• Local businesses have already been threatened with legal action for using any combination of two or more of the following numbers and words: Olympic, London, 2012, summer, or games. Let's try them all in a sentence: "The people behind the London 2012 Olympic summer games are cretins."
• Poses and gestures that are even reminiscent of the Games are verboten. At Barcelona ‘92, British sprinter Sally Gunnell won gold in the 400m hurdles and famously draped herself in the Union Jack as she celebrated. When she attempted to strike a similar pose during a recent photo shoot for non-sponsor easyJet, she got smacked down because British Air is an official Olympic sponsor (and apparently now a co-owner of the British flag).
• Attendees aren't allowed to post videos and photos from the events to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or other social media. They can only share images from competitions for private use, seemingly to prevent any unauthorized exploitation of the world's greatest "amateur" sporting event. And "private" is to be taken in the most limited sense possible—as in just you and your closest friends, with the lights out and the blinds drawn. A strict interpretation of the rules would consider it a violation to upload, say, pictures of yourself in the stands during a basketball game to your blog. It's unclear how any of this will be enforced, but transgressors better keep a bag packed.
