The Wonderful Everyday?

The following sign was fixed to a post in the area above Sheffield Midland Station known as South Street Open Space. I assume that the sign refers to the area around an advertising installation that reads 'The Wonderful Everyday'.

PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY

TODAT'S EVENTS ARE BEING RECORDED BY MOTHER LONDON LIMITED FOR A CAMPAIGN PROVISIONALLY ENTITLED 'IKEA SHEFFIELD TOUR'

BY ENTERING THIS AREA YOU ARE CONSENTING TO YOUR INCLUSION IN THE FILM/PICTURES AND YOU IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY GRANT TO US ALL RIGHTS AND CONSENTS IN YOUR PERFORMANCE/APPEARANCE SO THAT WE MAY EXPLOIT THE FILM/PICTURES IN ALL MEDIA WHETHER NOW KNOWN OR HEREAFTER DEVISED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD IN PERPETUITY

IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE FILMED PLEASE KEEP CLEAR OF THIS AREA

WE HOPE THAT THIS WILL NOT INCONVENIENCE YOUR VISIT

THANK YOU

Is this genuine?

If so, do you believe that you should be assumed to consent to 'irrevocably and unconditionally granting all rights and consents... throughout the world in perpetuity' to your appearance simply by walking in a public place?

To answer your question: No, absolutely not. It is symptomatic of a wider problem of public spaces being privatised which has the potential to reduce our rights of assembly, protest, privacy or minding our own business.

To answer your question: No, absolutely not. It is symptomatic of a wider problem of public spaces being privatised which has the potential to reduce our rights of assembly, protest, privacy or minding our own business.

Precisely! Your comment resonates exactly with my own view.

Surely Sheffield City Council bears some significant responsibility for allowing this sickening development? I would suggest that such phenomena demonstrate that the council executive is now entirely in the hands of neoliberals intent on ignoring the rights and interests of the council tax payers (the people who pay their fat salaries) and handing our city over to the multinationals.

Its just standard boilerplate, I wouldn't take it so seriously.

Standard stuff. You dont think the BBC goes round with a clipboard everytime they do a crowd shot do you?

Don't worry. It's just routine, standard stuff...

A London PR firm has just appropriated a large area of public space in Sheffield on behalf of a corporate tax abuser, trashing our rights over our parks and open spaces for a publicity stunt and we should be at ease, no problem here...?

Don't worry. It's just routine, standard stuff...

 

A London PR firm has just appropriated a large area of public space in Sheffield on behalf of a corporate tax abuser, trashing our rights over our parks and open spaces for a publicity stunt and we should be at ease, no problem here...?

Would it make you feel warm and cuddly if it was an advert for the socialist worker or greenpeace? The notice would read the same - if they put one up.

No it would not. My loathing for PR firms, tax abusers and cynical public sector executives is matched by my contempt for the socialist workers. Greenpeace has better things to do (hopefully) than engage in such corporate sleaze.

Why don't you stand outside Sheffield Ikea and tell people. I'm sure they'll care and shop elsewhere.

No it would not. My loathing for PR firms, tax abusers and cynical public sector executives is matched by my contempt for the socialist workers. Greenpeace has better things to do (hopefully) than engage in such corporate sleaze.

You dont think Greenpeace do adverts.

Really?

Just a few simple steps and the argument is redirected from cynical PR, corporate tax abuse, and gutless local authority betrayal, to the publicity techniques of Greenoeace.

I don't think so.

Just a few simple steps and the argument is redirected from cynical PR, corporate tax abuse, and gutless local authority betrayal, to the publicity techniques of Greenoeace.

 

I don't think so.

Have a lie down mate, you seem tired.