The Olympic Organizing Committee prohibit ticket holders to transmit or distribute the games-related photos and recording to personal social media accounts (image via: soranews24)

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Fans are prohibited to share photos of the Games on social media

The exhilaration in welcoming the world's leading sports competition, Tokyo Olympics 2020 has been obvious as the event is getting closer and closer. 

However, fans’ excitement would be lessen as the Olympic Organizing Committee Sports made an official statement to prohibit every ticket holder to transmit or distribute photos, video recordings, or audio recordings taken within event venues without the prior consent of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). 

The ban prevent fans to spread photos and videos via television, radio, the Internet and other electronic media (social media and live-streaming), including forms which are not currently in existence.

People who come to the venue are still allowed to take pictures, record video and audio as long as they do not post them to personal social media accounts. All photos and recordings’ copyright belong to the Olympic Organizing Committee.  

If fans want to share them with other people, they could use the traditional way of “Face-to-face”, showing their phone or recorder to people they are hang out with. Another way, they could ask permission first from the official committee to share them online.

The Olympic committee had opened the first round application for the tickets from May 9 to 29. It was a lottery system and only people who live in Japan might apply through the link provided. The tickets available were the Opening and Closing Ceremony, as well as all but one of the 33 sports (excluding boxing).  

Overseas customers could buy the tickets through authorized ticket resellers in their country of residence. The list of official resellers are available on the website.