How about... Food vendors are not allowed to sell chips, unless they are part of a Fish and Chips meal...
http://news.sky.com/story/958815/french-fried-chips-off-menu-at-olympics On 11 July 2012 01:34, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > This may be old news, but I just ran across it and found it interesting > (and draconian). > > > Olympics 2012: branding 'police' to protect sponsors' exclusive > rights<http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/apr/13/olympics-2012-branding-police-sponsors> > > "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 offense." > > A criminal offense? You break the branding laws or make a tweet and you > will be thrown in jail. > > * Fans in the crowd won't be allowed to upload snippets of the day's > action to YouTube > * Pub landlords will be banned from posting signs reading: "Come and watch > the London <http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/london> Games from our big screen!" > * a crack team of branding "police will be checking every bathroom in every > Olympic venue â with the power to remove or tape over manufacturers' logos > even on soap dispensers, wash basins and toilets. > * This bars non-sponsors from employing images or wording that might > suggest too close a link with the Games. Expressions likely to be > considered a breach of the rules would include any two of the following > list: "Games, Two Thousand and Twelve, 2012, Twenty-Twelve". > * Using one of those words with London, medals, sponsors, summer, gold, > silver or bronze is another likely breach. > * witter has already agreed to work with Locog in barring non-sponsors from > buying promoted ads with hashtags like #London2012. > * Like all attendees at any Olympic venue, there is an absolute bar on > athletes uploading snatches of video or audio, which would contravene > lucrative broadcasters' rights. > * During "Games Period" - 18 July to 15 August - advertising rules become > much stricter for athletes, banning all non-sponsor endorsements > > *Athletes don't â¦* > > ⢠Blog about your breakfast cereal or energy bar if it's not an official > sponsor â in Games Period all endorsement is banned. > > ⢠Post video clips from inside the athletes' village to your blog or > Youtube. No audio or video content from inside any Olympic venue can be > uploaded to any site. > > ⢠Tweet "in the role of a journalist". Athletes "must not report on > competition or comment on the activities of other participants". > > *Non-sponsor companies and businesses don't â¦* > > ⢠Say: "Supporting our athletes at the 2012 Games!" or "Help us make it a > Gold 2012!" > > ⢠Use images that suggest an assocation with the London Olympics. > > â¢Offer tickets as part of a promotion. > > *Crowd members don't* ⦠> > ⢠Upload a clip of William and Kate tripping up the steps of the Olympic > stadium to Youtube: "A Ticket Holder may not license, broadcast or publish > video and/or sound recordings, including on social networking websites and > the internet." > > ⢠Post your pictures to Facebook â this may fall under the same > restriction. > > ⢠Take part in an ambush marketing stunt, "including, for the avoidance of > doubt individual or group ambush marketing". > > This list doesn't do justice to how restrictive things are. Read the > article. > > > It gets better. Ticket restrictions > <http://www.london2012.com/mm/Document/Documents/General/01/25/44/06/Prohibitedandrestricteditemslists_Neutral.pdf> > list > the following: > > Any objects or clothing bearing political statements or overt commercial > identification intended for âambush marketingâ > > > > > So, if you have a shirt with a swoosh on it, you can be kicked out of the > event you are attending since Adidas is the shoe sponsor. > > J > > - > > Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. > - Henry Kissinger > > Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, > go out and buy some more tunnel. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:352612 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
