The IOC's 'Clean Venue' Policy 549
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 (Score:1, Funny)
Rats (Score:5, Funny)
Illegal usage of Olympic trademark (Score:5, Funny)
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 (Score:4, Funny)
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 (Score:4, Funny)
What about some google-bombing ... (Score:5, Funny)
Not that I drink a lot of any CSD, but
CC.
Re:Bottles without labels? (Score:5, Funny)
fight back by getting FAT! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Athens 2004 Restricted Items and Actions (Score:2, Funny)
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! (Score:3, Funny)
> 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 (Score:4, Funny)
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... (Score:3, Funny)
"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... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Is Apple a sponsor? (Score:2, Funny)
forbidden items & hence the question.
Re:Bottles without labels? (Score:5, Funny)
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? (Score:3, Funny)
And in the 2012 Olympics, they'll require that you buy the logos.
--
7 people have sent me Gmail invites. Ralph won, and will be recieving my soul. Thank you to all who played.
Hmmm
(Yeah, I know it's OT. But I don't read enough comments on sigs here.
Re:Bottles without labels? (Score:2, Funny)
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. (Score:5, Funny)
Disagreeing with the powers that be was what got a lot of them there in the first place.
Re:Bottles without labels? (Score:3, Funny)
"Ya see here, there's these two boards, here *circle* and here *circle* these guys will jump off, like this *curved lines*, and BAM!
Sure, I coulda' done better, but I never said I was a comedian.