WMUK have asked, and we live in London; some of us next door to the stadium. The answer is a resounding 'no' from all corners, even when we speak to the government. We've got a volunteer with very good access to the games, but even behind the scenes it's difficult to get photographs.
The IOC are not here to give things away for free, it seems: something which is painfully apparent to those who've seen the ticket prices!
Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK On Jul 24, 2012 10:59 AM, "Amir E. Aharoni" amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
2012/7/24 Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk:
On 24 July 2012 10:21, Frederic Schutz schutz@mathgen.ch wrote:
Has anyone from the Wikimedia community contacted the IOC on this
matter?
If not, WM CH could give it a try (their headquarters are in
Switzerland,
actually less than 2km away from my place). I'm not overly optimistic,
but
it may be worth a try.
Wikimedia Australia have two accredited reporters for the Paralympics, but this explicitly does not provide for freely licensed photography:
Aha! Now this starts to be a problem that justifies a campaign for allowing Wikmedia-compatible licensing. At the very least, a post about this issue in the Foundation blog or in one of the chapters' blogs.
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