2012/7/24 ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2007@gmail.com:
May be we should take such anomalies to public forums!
I'm not actually sure that it's an anomaly. As I said, I don't follow sports and I only noticed such a thing now for the first time, but I don't find it extremely surprising.
I can even understand the restrictions somewhat - it's possible that it's not just a matter of greed, but also of privacy, press ethics, etc. Some screening of participation in a major public event is not entirely unreasonable. The main question is - is there a reasonable way in which a Free-Culture-friendly photographer could pass such screening.
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore