May be we should take such anomalies to public forums!
Slash dot? Free knowledge forums? Press? Media?
Olympics is not just a money spinning sponsored affair. Information about the happenings there is the right of every universal citizen!
The 'long' camera may have something to do with security. But accreditations?
My 2 cents of thoughts. -Viswam
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Hi,
The Olympic games are beginning soon. Apparently, ticket holders cannot use photo equipment longer than 30cm and cannot use the photos and videos for commercial purposes without accreditation.
Practically everything that happens at the Olympics is notable and should be on Wikipedia, Commons, etc. Does anybody know whether there are professional accredited photographers who are Wikimedia-friendly and plan to upload their photos? If there aren't any, does anybody know whether a Wikipedian can obtain such accreditation?
This doesn't concern me directly, but there are many, many people who write Wikipedia articles about sports in all languages and it may be interesting to them. Also, it may be a frequent issue in sports and I'm just not aware of it because I rarely follow sports.
Sources for the restrictions:
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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