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Legal question on broadcast rights and satire/comedy protections.
This came up in a conversation last night and I thought maybe some of our lawyers here might know/have opinions.
Lets take a college or pro football game. Could you perform and broadcast a humorous real time commentary or would this be a violation of content ownership rights? I know you can get away with a lot in the vein of satire, but..... I'm not talking about actually broadcasting the game, just the audio of the comedic commentary.
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11-14-2007, 05:32 AM
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You'd be surprised at what rules there are.
The way NFL rights are written my Superbowl party is in violation because my TV is larger than 55 inches. Just so I understand you want to broadcast separate commentary and not re broadcast any of the original audio/video? I think you could get away with that.
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11-14-2007, 06:11 AM
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You are correct in your assessment, no rebroadcast of actual video or audio. I know that MLB had a big fight with the Fantasy sports websites a year or two ago where they argued they owned the rights to the stats and the sites should have paid for the rights to use them. MLB lost.
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