[Wikimedia-l] photography restrictions at the Olympics

[Amir E. Aharoni]

2012/7/24 ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) <vp2007 at 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.

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