AOC urges Australians to support ‘true, valued partners’ after court loss to Telstra
The Australian Olympic Committee has urged the public to support its sponsors if they want to see teams continue to be funded to participate in the games.
The plea came after Telstra won a court battle to promote its app delivering Seven’s Olympics content despite the telco not being a sponsor.
The AOC said that yesterday’s Federal Court ruling made a “very narrow application of the law” in rejecting its claims former official sponsor Telstra had ambushed the games and mislead the public with ads promoting the app.
AOC is full of bureaucrats that milk the sponsors and people of Australia. for hundreds of thousands of dollars. I do not support anything to do with the so called olympic games, it just a plain waste
Telstra sponsored the AOC for decades….so perhaps they’re just claiming value that hadn’t been been properly realised during previous Games.
Most of the AOC funding is from taxpayers anyway. And with partner activation like this, http://bit.ly/2aHsWfd – no amount of AOC begging for public support will help them.
Regardless, could a legal eagle please clarify the “fine line” that wasn’t crossed, for me please?
The AOC still doesn’t get it, the Olympics should have long gone from being protected IP just like Beethoven’s music. This AOC cabal’s morality judgement just helped approve the Russian team, which country has corrupted nearly all the results in the post war era. (See the Weekend Australian on the way the AOC is run – by Chip le Grand). For most of the last 2792 years the Olympics was not privatised like it is now. IOC makes all the money (2012 they made over US$3b in revenues). As at 31/12/14 the IOC had net equity of US$1.760b after deducting TV rights advances of US$1b. Obviously not in the accounts is any (and there has been) bribe income of members of the IOC