On: The sports footage you won't see on TV this Thanks...

[jwallaceparker]

>> Um, no? There is nothing copyrighted about the on-field action of a football game. All they can do is kick you out of the stadium.

The NFL leases exclusive rights to TV stations to broadcast the action.

Anyone else who broadcasts the action will get sued and shut down.

[ars → jwallaceparker]

His question is what law gives the NFL this right. You can't just claim "I own" this.

As far as I know I am allowed to record anything I want. Perhaps not with audio, but I am not aware of any law that gives someone the right to prevent video recording.

They have the right to kick you out (if they catch you), but not to prevent recording.

If you know of such a law, please post it.

[sarchertech → ars]

http://www.harvardlawreview.org/media/pdf/united_states_v_ma...

2007 the 2nd circuit upheld an anti-bootlegging law, that prevents people from selling unauthorized recordings of live concerts.

I don't agree with it, but I think that under the law an NFL "performance" might be covered.

Of course the concert is a performance of a copyrighted work so who knows unless the teams are merely "performing" copyrighted written plays?

[SamReidHughes → sarchertech]

Concerts (and plays, speeches, etc) are performances, which are different from improvised speech and athletic competitions.