<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">(snigger)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><a href="http://www.worldipreview.com/news/beijing-olympics-song-removed-by-youtube-after-copyright-complaints-8714">http://www.worldipreview.com/news/beijing-olympics-song-removed-by-youtube-after-copyright-complaints-8714</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default">​<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:25.6px">YouTube has removed an official song for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics due to “multiple third-party” complaints of copyright infringement.</span></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:25.6px">The song, called “The Ice and Snow Dance”, had come under fire after various reports and YouTube users said it sounded too similar to “Let it Go”, a song featured in Disney’s 2013 hit film “Frozen”.</p><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:25.6px">Instead of showing the video, a YouTube search for the Olympics song now displays a</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:25.6px"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=112&v=48EojfCjQhk" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:25.6px;color:rgb(32,121,190);text-decoration:none">notice</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:25.6px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:25.6px">stating that the “YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement”.</span>​</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.worldipreview.com/news/tokyo-olympics-logo-scrapped-after-copyright-claim-8800">http://www.worldipreview.com/news/tokyo-olympics-logo-scrapped-after-copyright-claim-8800</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:25.6px">The logo for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games has been ditched following an allegation that it infringed copyright belong to a Belgian artist.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:25.6px"><snip></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:25.6px">The emblem, created by designer Kenjiro Sano, has a black block in the middle of a square shape with curved triangles in two corners. It also features a red circle similar to that on the Japanese flag.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:25.6px">Belgian designer Olivier Debie claimed that the design was similar to a logo that he designed for theatre company <a href="http://theatredeliege.be/" style="color:rgb(32,121,190);text-decoration:none">Théâtre de Liège</a> in 2013.</p></div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>---------------------------------------------------------------<br><span>Joly MacFie  <span title="Call with Google Voice"><span id="gc-number-0" class="" title="Call with Google Voice">218 565 9365</span></span> Skype:punkcast</span><br>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>-</div></div></div>
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