This is a completely different thing. You're talking about the ability to sign exclusive sponsorship deals and then have clauses in the contractual terms for ticket purchase which forbid the display of certain (or any) other commercial slogans etc by ticket purchasers.
This is no different from the situation at, say, the HK Sevens where the HKRFU signs exclusive F&B agreements with the people providing the F&B in the ground and then imposes a contract term which says that no bottle or cans may be brought into the grounds in order to attempt to protect that exclusivity.
These are pure commercial contract arrangements - they are absolutely nothing to do with underlying laws.
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Originally Posted by Boris  Further to the above, the following from the BOCOG site.
15. Security Department
Responsible for security affairs and maintenance of public order during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the Paralympics of 2008.
Now - the BOCOG works under the auspices of the I.O.C.
In effect, as I understand it, the Olympics is a traveling country that effectively is allowed to reside in a particular nation every 4 yrs. Hence the wording above. Am I correct ? |
No, absolutely wrong. The IOC is no different at the Olympics than the HKRFU is at the Sevens. The Sevens also has a security team employed by the HKRFU which is responsible for security affairs and the maintenance of public order there.
