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Subject: [Leica] Rights to Olympic Photos
From: piers.hemy at gmail.com (Piers Hemy)
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:22:21 +0100
References: <AA9F60EE-9B26-4B66-A23B-D76D62BD7380@me.com> <CC3B0DF0.21C4A%mark@rabinergroup.com>

They are both banned too!

Piers

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com at leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of 
Mark
Rabiner
Sent: 29 July 2012 20:58
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Rights to Olympic Photos

I thought a pro was defined by if they used a tripod or not. A monopod even.

Mark William Rabiner
Photography
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at me.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 15:24:26 +0100
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Rights to Olympic Photos
> 
> Lew
> 
> You are correct, despite the sponsorship by Panasonic.
> 
> Gerry
> 
> Gerry Walden
> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
> +44 (0)797 287 7932
> www.gwpics.com
> 
> On 29 Jul 2012, at 14:54, Lew Schwartz wrote:
> 
>> ... and I believe that I've read that they have taken the position 
>> that all interchangeable lens cameras are, by their definitions, 
>> commercial and evidence of commercial use.
>> 
>> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net>
wrote:
>> 
>>> I've heard several examples like that.  It looks like they would be 
>>> happy to have other people advertise for them!  Makes no sense to me!
>>> 
>>> Tina
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at me.com>
wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Piers
>>>> 
>>>> My only comment would be that a school on the Isle of Wight was 
>>>> made to remove rings of flowers made by children, and a florist in 
>>>> a small town
>>> in
>>>> Dorset was made to remove similar rings in the shop window put 
>>>> there on
>>> the
>>>> day the torch came through. Of very dubious, if any, commercial 
>>>> benefit
>>> and
>>>> both over the top reactions in my opinion.
>>>> 
>>>> Gerry
>>>> 
>>>> Gerry Walden
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Tina Manley, ASMP
>>> www.tinamanley.com
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> -Lew Schwartz
>> 
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