London Laws Make Posting Photos From Olympics a Crime

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And, in the category of stupid acts of legislation:

DailyHouse.com » The Games Shall Not Be Tweeted: London Laws Make Posting Pics From Inside Olympics Criminal.

If you’re going to London for the 2012 Olympics, as an athlete or a fan, posting pictures of yourself inside a venue potentially could land you in jail. Obviously, that seems pretty unlikely, but recent readings of a 2006 law passed in the UK as a provision for receiving the games and reported on in the Gaurdian finds: “A breach of these acts will not only give rise to a civil grievance, but is a criminal offense.”

Essentially, the ‘London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act of 2006‘ gives extra protection and enforcement powers to the British government in regards to Olympic sponsors and broadcasting of the Olympic Games. This type of law has been enacted as required by the International Olympic Committee of any host city that wants to hold the Olympics.

For athletes the rules are incredibly strict during Games time: Tweeting, posting to Facebook, or to any online content sharing service, pictures of yourself with any sponsor product that is not an Olympic sponsor could result in disqualification. Athletes cannot publish any sound or audio of any event, nor can they serve as ‘broadcasters’ which means that they are barred from talking about events or the goings on of events with other athletes.

What a freaking moronic law.
 
What a freaking moronic law.

Did you bother to read the actual law? Linked from your source?

For section 4(1) to (10) (infringement of Olympics association right: limitations) substitute—“(1)A person does not infringe the Olympics association right (despite section 3) by the use of a controlled representation—
(a)in publishing or broadcasting a report of a sporting or other event forming part of the Olympic Games,
(b)in publishing or broadcasting information about the Olympic Games,
(c)as an incidental inclusion in a literary work, dramatic work, artistic work, sound recording, film or broadcast, within the meaning of Part I of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48) (copyright), or
(d)as an inclusion in an advertisement for a publication or broadcast of a kind described in paragraph (a) or (b).
(2)But the exceptions in subsection (1)(a) and (b) do not apply to advertising material which is published or broadcast at the same time as, or in connection with, a report or information.
(3)A person does not infringe the Olympics association right by using a controlled representation in a context which is not likely to suggest an association between a person, product or service and the Olympic Games or the Olympic movement; and for the purpose of this subsection—
(a)the concept of an association between a person, product or service and the Olympic Games or the Olympic movement includes, in particular—
(i)any kind of contractual relationship,
(ii)any kind of commercial relationship,
(iii)any kind of corporate or structural connection, and
(iv)the provision by a person of financial or other support for or in connection with the Olympic Games or the Olympic movement, but
(b)a person does not suggest an association with the Olympic Games or the Olympic movement only by making a statement which—
(i)accords with honest practices in industrial or commercial matters, and
(ii)does not make promotional or other commercial use of a protected word by incorporating it in a context to which the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement are substantively irrelevant.

(1)The London Olympics association right is not infringed by the use of a representation—(a)in publishing or broadcasting a report of a sporting or other event forming part of the London Olympics,(b)in publishing or broadcasting information about the London Olympics,(c)as an incidental inclusion in a literary work, dramatic work, artistic work, sound recording, film or broadcast, within the meaning of Part I of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48) (copyright), or(d)as an inclusion in an advertisement for a publication or broadcast of a kind described in paragraph (a) or (b).

These all say exactly the OPPOSITE of what the article in the OP says, and they are directly taken from the law in question.
 
The Brits have a lot more to worry about such as their national obsession for coming in 4th in the gold medal count. I can hear 'em now....We're No.4!...We're No. 4!...We're No.4!
 

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