IP Justice › News Archive » IP Justice Comment on Request to ICANN from Red Cross & Olympic Committee to Ban Others’ Use of Words in Domain Names. RE: ICANN Public Comment Period RE: Red Cross & International Olympic Committee Request to Ban Others’ Use of Words in Domain Names That They Want for Themselves Today I write to express my personal disappointment with the way ICANN has mis-handled this request for special rights to prohibit the use of certain words in domain names which are desired by politically powerful, but ultimately arbitrary, interests.
Unfortunately, this case represents another clear example of ICANN departing from its own established policies and stated principles of bottom-up governance to demonstrate that it is not quite ready to be a legitimate global governance institution that can be trusted to manage the security and stability of the domain name system in the public interest. Nor has the community ever reached consensus to grant these special privileges, indeed many voices in the ICANN community continue to object to this attempt to steam-roll policy from the top-down to achieve political expedience. IP Justice › News Archive » IP Justice Comment on Olympic Committee and Red Cross Requests to be Granted Global Exclusive Licensing Rights to Words in the DNS. Online Freedom of Expression Under Threat at ICANN - Get Involved!
The Cover Of This British Magazine About Olympic Censorship Could Be Banned From Sale Due To Olympic Censorship. Britain flooded with 'brand police' to protect sponsors - Home News - UK. Almost 300 enforcement officers will be seen across the country checking firms to ensure they are not staging "ambush marketing" or illegally associating themselves with the Games at the expense of official sponsors such as Adidas, McDonald's, Coca-Cola and BP. The clampdown goes on while 3,500 soldiers on leave are brought in to bail out the security firm G4S which admitted it could not supply the numbers of security staff it had promised.
Yesterday, the Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, refused to rule out that even more soldiers may be called upon to help with security, but dismissed the issue as merely a "hitch". However, as well as the regular Army, the Olympic "brand army" will start its work with a vengeance today. Olympic Cakes Breaching Copyright. No matter where you are in the world right now, it is easy to guess what the most talked about sporting event is.
The Olympic Games. This presents a great opportunity for us cake decorators, since hot topics make for desirable cake designs. However, don’t go looking out your blue, black, red, yellow and green sugarpaste just yet. Something we’ve been made aware of is the copyright issue surrounding the use of the Olympic rings. Crazy, I know! London 2012 Has WiFi Police to Shut Down WiFi Hotspots. It's a hotspot hunter!
The International Olympic Committee recently revealed that mobile hotspots are not allowed at this year's Olympics. While you are permitted to use a your smartphone or tablet inside the venues, personal or private access points, along with 3G hubs and a ton of other items, are not allowed inside. What?!? Now we’re not even allowed to link to the Olympics website? Digital We’ve heard a lot about how the Olympics Games will take over London in the past few weeks: missile launchers on rooftops, non-approved chips banned from the Olympic site, protest threatened, Twitter accounts censored.
But we must admit we hadn’t noticed the Olympic organisers attempts to change the way the entire internet works. Olympic Broadcast Restrictions Lead to Newscaster's Lego Reenactment (Video) Each Olympics, trademark attorneys everywhere compete with each other over who can best explain the International Olympic Committee's tough regimen in cracking down on brand ambushers.
By now, most people are familiar just how protective the IOC can be of its marks and official sponsors. Much less attention gets paid to the IOC's restrictive news access rules. For example, the IOC has these guidelines for newscasters who wish to show footage from the London games: "a) Olympic Material may appear in no more than three (3) News Programs per day; and b) No more than two (2) minutes of Olympic Material may be used in any one News Program; and c) These News Programs must be separated by a period of at least three (3) hours; and d) No more than one third of any individual event may be used in any one News Programs or 30 seconds, whichever is the lesser time. MattEPower : International Olympic Committee... Even The Sex At The Olympics Is Sponsored. We've had plenty of stories about the insane lengths the Olympics goes to in order to block out any appearance of a non-sponsor brand, including taping over the brands of non-sponsors on bathroom fixtures and urinals.
And, apparently, the Olympics obsession with deleting all non-sponsorship brands extends almost to the point of contact when athletes decide to get down and dirty with each other. Every couple years, when the Olympics roll around, there are stories like this one, about the volume of sexual activity in the Olympic Village among the athletes. And, if we go by condom count, the volume keeps on growing: At the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, the Australian organizing committee distributed 45,000 free condoms in the village.
Eight years later in Beijing, 70,000 condoms—labeled with the phrase ‘Faster, Higher, Stronger’—were exhausted and 20,000 more were ordered. London 2012 Olympics: Copyright laws ban bakers from icing cakes with logo. By Martin Robinson Updated: 21:38 GMT, 14 September 2011 When they began planning their international show for next year, Britain's leading cake decorators thought one theme was obvious - the Olympics.
But their plan to celebrate the 2012 games in icing and marzipan has been left in tatters after the International Olympic Committee banned them from copying any of its official symbols, including the five rings. YouTube et Dailymotion privés de Jeux Olympiques. Les JO de Londres ou le déni de la liberté de communiquer. US Olympic Committee Forces 30 Year Old Philidelphia Gyro Restaraunt To Change Its Name. Ah, the Olympics. The spirit of cooperation. Of athletic competition. Of the essence of global feel-good-ness, where all the Olympic committees of the world come together to put on a spectacle made of the most brilliant athletes in the world.
Oh, and they also like to stifle links to critical pieces (do we have your attention, boys?) Anger as events fall foul of Olympics copyright - Management. Tough sponsorship rules banning use of the ‘O’-word under fire as individuals and firms are warned off, reports Claire Smith ORGANISERS of the Hopetoun House Horse Trials thought they were on to a winner when they realised this year’s event on 28 and 29 July corresponded with the Olympic opening weekend.
A live link-up with the London Games will ensure visitors can keep up with what is happening down south while enjoying live equestrian and rural events in the heart of the Scottish countryside. However, organisers have now been told they will not be allowed to mention the “O” word in their advertising – making them the latest to fall victims of the Olympic copyright police. Camille Craig, Hopetoun’s marketing manager, said: “We have been extremely cautious when using the “O” word simply to avoid any risk of contravening guidelines.
Martin Hunt, of Tartan Silk public relations, said the heavy- handed approach was a PR disaster: “This is a complete piece of nonsense. JO : Twitter et NBC, partenaires de censure. Pour parler des jeux olympiques (pardon, des Jeux d'été), les journalistes marchent décidemment sur des oeufs.
Après le CIO, c'est Twitter qui se montre tatillon. Un correspondant britannique a ainsi vu son compte twitter temporairement suspendu pour avoir critiqué trop fortement la chaîne américaine NBC, partenaire du réseau social à l'occasion des JO. Guy Adams, correspondant du journal britannique The Independant, s'est montré particulièrement virulent sur Twitter, allant jusqu'à publier l'adresse mail professionnelle du président de NBC Olympics, Gary Zenker.
"Ecrivez-lui ce que vous en pensez ! ", disait le tweet. Sa suspension fait en outre suite à une requête de NBC. Une analyste des médias numériques, Rebecca Lieb, considère quant à elle que Twitter "crée un précédent dangereux" et "pourrait subir des dommages irréparables s'il montrait que les intérêts d'un partenaire commercial prévalent sur sa politique et ses utilisateurs". De son côté, Guy Adams s'amuse de l'épilogue : "Oh. Kate Middleton Parents' Family Business Party Pieces 'Did not Breach' Olympics Ad Rules - International Business Times UK. Party Pieces' ring toss game The accessories business run by the parents of Kate and Pippa Middleton has been cleared of breaching advertising rules around the Olympics games. Lawyers representing games organiser Locog investigated the Middletons' Party Pieces website after being alerted by journalists over a range entitled "Celebrating the Games". The range includes products such as 2012 novelty glasses, a ring toss game bearing the colours of the Olympic rings, and plates bearing the legend "I Love London".
Locog, working in tandem with the Olympics Delivery Authority (ODA), has threatened to impose £20,000 fines on retailers found to be using key words and phrases reserved by official Olympics sponsors. Proposal to Protect International Red Cross and International Olympic Committee Names at the Top Level in New gTLDs. Generic Names Supporting Organization. IGP Blog. Email Archives: [gnso-iocrc-dt] The Concept of International Legal Personality, An Inquiry into the History and Theory of International Law. J. E. Nijman. Motions 12 April 2012. 1. Motion to delay the ‘thick’ Whois Policy Development Process Made by: Stéphane van Gelder Seconded by: Yoav Keren Whereas the GNSO Council requested an Issue Report on ‘thick’ Whois at its meeting on 22 September 2011 (see. Meeting of the New gTLD Program Committee.
Olympic domain watch list shows hundreds of squats, legit names too. In The Spirit Of Fair Play: A Primer On IP And The Olympics. Olympic Madness.