arkitrave :: log

This is a completely gratuitous post.

Apparently the olympic committee feels that they have a right to a policy which tells me how I can link to their site. I am not allowed to use the Olympic Emblem at all, and I can’t have a link in body copy to the Olympic site without writing a letter to The Internet Department in Greece, via airmail. If I do have that link in body copy, it must have the text “ATHENS 2004″. You can read the entire policy here.

I’ll update if I ever figure out what they were thinking, and what gives them the right to control how I link to external sites on my own domain.

Note that I am aware that I do not have a copyright on the Athens 2004 emblem shown. What you see is a screenshot of a Google cache of another site. It is protected under the fair use provisions of US law.

Update: You can now email the Internet Department in Greece rather than sending an airmail. That’s a relief. Imagine, emailing an Internet Department. The world is just changing too fast…

Update: Here’s some information about linking and intellectual property law that relates to this subject.