The IOC's 'Clean Venue' Policy

Dave21212 writes "Yes folks, the International Olympic Committee's 'Brand Protection Team' will be protecting against the threat of Advertising Terrorism at the games. According to an MSNBC article, the IOC's Karen Webb states 'Our role is to protect all of our sponsor categories and actively monitor ambush activity.' Restricted items include, flags, umbrellas, shirts, hats, and bags with trademarks of rival sponsors. Unofficial brands can be confiscated and with only Coke allowed on Olympic grounds, this brings new meaning to The Pepsi Challenge!"

Refreshing Coke

[Anonymous Coward]

One would that that coke would be the last thing a athlte would want in his/her system ;)

Rats

[tirefire]

Now I can't wear my Al-Qaeda baseball cap.

Illegal usage of Olympic trademark

[davidfromoz]

Dear Slashdot,

I draw your attention to the inappropriate use of the words "Olympic" and "Pepsi" in the same article. Please remove this document immediately or you will be hearing from our lawyers.

Jacques

Re:The Olympic Charter

[Esion Modnar]

without discrimination of any kind

Yeah, unless you're wearing a Pepsi shirt...

I, for one, welcome our new corporate overlords. No, wait... no i don't.

Re:So the alternative to "advertising terrorism" i

[Eudial]

Ein OS, Ein Schtadium, ein uh, advertising? =P

What about some google-bombing ...

[foobsr]

..., e.g. Olympics [pepsi.com] ???

Not that I drink a lot of any CSD, but ...+

CC.

Re:Bottles without labels?

[fireweaver]

I assume you are talking about such things as censoring cusswords and things like women's breasts? If that is the case, then you have to remember that the United States is a Christian Nation (tm) and as such, is extremely immature when it comes to things like sex in particular. It's not really the fault of christianity (tm) per se, just the peculiar American implementation thereof. Like the old joke goes, "Why did Australia get all the convicts and America get all the religious nuts? Australia got first choice."

fight back by getting FAT!

[Anonymous Coward]

show the olympics that physical repulsiveness is an alternative to fitness. Get extremely fat, then say to those olympic assholes "my keg is bigger (hence better) than your 6-pack". Most slashdot readers are well on their way to saving the whales.

Re:Athens 2004 Restricted Items and Actions

[kooshvt]

"Many consumers end up rather confused as to who the official Olympic sponsors are."

You know all this time I thought I was enjoying watching the atheletes compete. Now I realize that it was all just disillusionment from not being aware of who the official sponsors were.

Who won gold in X event in Y year?
I'm not sure, who was the official sponsor that year?

Protest by going naked!

[Chemisor]

> if you wear something like an Adidas shirt for
> example, and Nike is a sponsor and Adidas is not,
> they will confiscate it. Frankly, I would flat out refuse.

Don't! Just give them the rest of your clothes too. If you are not allowed to wear clothes made by Adidas, why should you be allowed to wear clothes you got at the Old Navy, or Target, or Salvation Army? Those companies probably did not contribute to the Olympics either. The only safe way is going in your birthday suit, which is the only thing truly your own (for now).

Re:Athens 2004 Restricted Items and Actions

[Fortyseven]

Prohibited items: Guns, explosive materials, chemical or incendiary mechanisms, tear gas, smoke bombs, knives, narcotic or other illegal substances, fireworks, firecrackers, poles, bats and in general items that may cause physical damage, even if they are legally possessed.

Well there you go. And they spent like, what, a billion dollars on security? And for what? There was a rule against bringing in things terrorists would use all along. Sounds like conspiracy!

Oh, the irony...

[stubear]

Typical day on /.:

"Hey, keep your damn ads off the web."
"Damn corporations are everywhere. Get the hell out of here, kill them all."
"What right do corporations have to commercial speech?"

---------------------
For one day only on /.:

"Hey, what right does the IOC have infringing the rights of coroprations to freely advertise?"

Am I the only one who sees the irony here?

Ah...

[alexandre]

the olympics, that great world symbol of peace and ... capitalism! :)

Re:Is Apple a sponsor?

[Frankie70]

After reading the Subject of your post, I thought maybe Oranges or Bananas are in list of
forbidden items & hence the question.

Re:Bottles without labels?

[Danster]

America isn't a christian nation. There are indeed religious nutbags who desperately wish it were a christian nation, but so we've managed to keep those nutbags from seizing the government. If it ever becomes a christian nation, I'll be one of the first to pick up a rifle and join the rebellion against the theocracy.

Time to pick up that rifle then. *Cough* Bush *Cough*.

Re:Bottles without labels?

[jc42]

Just wait. In the next Olympics, they'll decide that an unlabelled bottle is also a terrorist threat. They'll require that anyone with such a bottle (or article of clothing) affix a logo from an official Olympic sponsor.

And in the 2012 Olympics, they'll require that you buy the logos.

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Re:Bottles without labels?

[Edie O'Teditor]

get's it's

You 'should check your 'sy'stem. I think you have a problem with your keyboard driver - it 'seem's to be in'serting 'spuriou's character's.

Re:Your homeland is not recognized as a country.

[Anonymous Coward]

Telling the powers that be to get stuffed is a great Australian tradition.

Disagreeing with the powers that be was what got a lot of them there in the first place. :P

Re:Bottles without labels?

[hesiod]

> I'm surprised they don't have John Madden [...] commentating on the Men's 3m Synchronized Springboard

"Ya see here, there's these two boards, here *circle* and here *circle* these guys will jump off, like this *curved lines*, and BAM! ... into the water. But what they wanna do, ya see, is make sure they do this at the same time, together, at the same time as each other. *scribble, scribble* They have to look the same, they have to be synchronisized the same. *maniacal, undecipherable scrawl* What you don't wanna do is screw up like those krauts just now. You gotta wonder what they were thinking..."

Sure, I coulda' done better, but I never said I was a comedian.