Archive for October 2006
NFL exercises football message control?
This is new to me. However, it looks like the NFL is clamping down on postgame non-action video posted on newspaper and media sites.
The latest flap involves restrictions on what newspapers can put on their Web sites from game-day coverage. An increasing number of newspapers, including The Kansas City Star, are posting game stories and still photographs from games on their sites during and immediately after games.
However, the NFL will not allow newspapers (or any non-rights holders) to show their postgame coverage of news conferences or locker-room interviews on their Web sites. Even video from a newspaper’s reporter asking questions of a coach or player at a podium or locker cannot be posted on the newspaper’s site.
The NFL contends anything that happens on game day is proprietary to the league and its rights holders, NBC, CBS, FOX and ESPN.
