Hanley florist told to remove Olympic display as Coca Cola could sue

Rowley Reg

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A florist in Hanley has been forced to remove her Olympic Rings display by the local trading standards for fear of upsetting Coca-Cola. Although I personally live in Stafford, I visit Hanley regularly, and this absolutely stinks.

http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.u...Florist-told/story-16193527-detail/story.html

England has gone mad.

As a taxpayer, I'd prefer my local council to concentrate on encouraging traders and businesses, not persecuting them for the most minor of infringements. Where is the common sense, and more importantly, why have we allowed minor buerocrats to impact our lives with ridiculously over-zealous enforcement of extremely minor civil infractions, whilst burglars, car thieves and criminals run wild?

I note that no-one wanted to comment from Locog - despite the billions we have spent.

1. Who made this decision?
2. Who is the department head responsible for this decision?
3. What is the process to remove these idiots from their jobs?

How on earth did this pathetic little beurocrat decide that the Olympic rings are copyright - milliuons of English schoolchildren have done paintings of the Olympics, many of which are displayed loacally (Stafford Station for one) .

Is it me?
 

joshua

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Five Rings to rule them all,
Five Rings to fool them,
Five Rings to bring them all
and of their money bleed them.
 

henryscat

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The whole sponsorship of the Olympics is fairly scandalous. Coca Cola and McDonalds are not exactly purveyors of healthiness... It concerns me that local authorities are advertising them on web pages to do with the torch relay too. The public sector shouldn't be giving them free advertising. Also see that the likes of Coke are peddling their products throughout the torch relay. Sadly commercial interests are being allowed to over-ride everything.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
The whole sponsorship of the Olympics is fairly scandalous. Coca Cola and McDonalds are not exactly purveyors of healthiness... It concerns me that local authorities are advertising them on web pages to do with the torch relay too. The public sector shouldn't be giving them free advertising. Also see that the likes of Coke are peddling their products throughout the torch relay. Sadly commercial interests are being allowed to over-ride everything.
The entire thing has been turned into a scam. A large part of the competition is actually between un-named chemists and accountants rather than the athletes themselves. It's all very sad, it used to be a good thing before the wide-boys got in there.

It's just a business - would mere mortals be allowed to block highways in order to advertise their businesses?
 

John Marwood

I ♥ cryptic crosswords
It would be marvelous if the local council decided that they no longer wanted this horrible giant business corp littering our streets and banned the torch and all the commercial trash that goes with it

Would certainly impress health organisations, small traders ( eventually ), and better still upset these tax dodging corporate foreign devils - boo hiss I hear you say

World publicity for Stafford - lets kick the can down the road a bit and have our own multi national free parteeeee ( sponsored by Mags n Fags, Locks n Latches, Pie n Ale ) oh hang on..


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The Olympic rings are the exclusive property of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The Olympic rings are protected around the world in the name of the IOC by trademarks or national legislations and cannot be used without the IOC's prior written consent. You will find the rule about this subject in the Olympic Charter:
You can send a detailed request to legal@olympic.org, which must include the below information:
  1. Who is making the request? Name, full address, telephone and/or fax number, e-mail address. Institution, organisation, company, museum or individual.
  2. Which content is concerned? (texts, images or films)
  3. How will the content be used? Private use (no broadcasting), school work, group activities, exhibition, production/broadcasting.
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So... Who can design our own Stafford rings?

:xd::xd::xd:
:sing::shifty:

 

shoes

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The whole sponsorship of the Olympics is fairly scandalous. Coca Cola and McDonalds are not exactly purveyors of healthiness... It concerns me that local authorities are advertising them on web pages to do with the torch relay too. The public sector shouldn't be giving them free advertising. Also see that the likes of Coke are peddling their products throughout the torch relay. Sadly commercial interests are being allowed to over-ride everything.
Well, seeing as the olympics are a complete crock of shit being funded by the taxpayer I'm all in favour of bleeding as much money as possible from willing sponsors to pay for it.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
I noticed this morning that our own Webb & Lucas on Bridge Street have a large Olympic logo in their window display.
 

Gramaisc

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John Marwood

I ♥ cryptic crosswords
Are we a bunch of cowards?

No single person or business has been prosecuted for showing their rings..

It would appear everyone has bricked it simply on a threat

Surely an opportunity

For some amazing value advertising - in exchange for punative fine and a quick appearance before the beak

Spineless Britain!
 

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) raised £700m from sponsors.
Sir John Armitt, chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, told Sky News: "If you didn't have that £700m it would have to come from somewhere else, probably the taxpayer.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/truth-branding-games-205545073.html

London’s original bid was $5 billion. That number is now estimated to be $15 billion. And that has some Brits rather bothered.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnclarke/2012/03/28/how-much-will-the-london-olympics-cost-too-much/

So all this bullpoop with the sponsors was to raise about 5% of the actual cost. Worth all the hassle? Are they paying tax on their earnings within the venues fully?
 

John Marwood

I ♥ cryptic crosswords
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/truth-branding-games-205545073.html


http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnclarke/2012/03/28/how-much-will-the-london-olympics-cost-too-much/

So all this bullpoop with the sponsors was to raise about 5% of the actual cost. Worth all the hassle? Are they paying tax on their earnings within the venues fully?


The athletes appear to get money from us ( govt lotto grants and the like ) etc etc

The elite athletes appear to also make considerable money from advertising and appearances etc etc

Students also get money to achieve their goals but have to pay it back once they earn a certain amount

Do these athletes have to do the same once they earn the required yearly income?
 
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