As someone who regularly watches Mariners baseball games on TV (nice win over the Red Sox last night), I am alternately bemused and outraged by the statement near the end of each game that any
accounts and descriptions of this game may not be disseminated without express written consent of Major League Baseball
That is such a blatant and illegal misinterpretation of any intellectual property law as to be completely ridiculous – “I’d tell you about last night’s game, but I have to get permission from MLB first”.
Now at last, somebody’s doing something about it:
The legitimacy of that broad claim may be determined by the Federal Trade Commission after the Computer & Communications Industry Association filed a lengthy complaint with the FTC this morning. The CCIA is a trade group with members such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, RedHat, and others that promotes “open markets, open systems, and full, fair, and open competition.” Those companies believe that the overly broad copyright claims “cast a pall” over the tech industry.
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