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Indiana U – National Sports Journalism Centre
IOC – big brother is watching
“The International Olympic Committee has ordered a blogger to remove a video showing the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili from his website,”
International Business Times writes, adding, “Stephen Pate, publisher of the online site NJN Network, published the video along with commentary about the death, and the IOC has since ordered him in an email to take it down.
The IOC asserts that it owns all the rights to all images taken at the games, and only licensed broadcasters can use them. However, Pate points to a Canadian law that allows copyrighted images to be used in newsworthy cases. . . . Aside from the copyright issue, the IOC also said that the footage was disrespectful to the Kumaritashvili family.”
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