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Is Describing The Sporting Event You're Watching Copyright Infringement?

by mtippett | March 27, 2007 at 10:48 am

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The world is becoming more absurd by the day. When did we lose possession of our own experiences?

Last year, we noted that as various professional sports leagues were becoming increasingly ruthless in claiming ownership over any data associated with a sporting event, it seemed as thought (based on the reasoning of those leagues) it could actually be considered to be copyright infringement just to describe the sporting event you were attending. On the face of it, that sounds ridiculous -- especially since copyright law is clear that you can't own facts.

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bloggi

at 14:47 on March 27th, 2007

This society will blast itself. I loved Yul 3452's description on how that will happen. And probably, since I see no way we can continue into this absurd direction forever, that will be a liberating thing once it happens. On a completely cynical note: After WW2, Germany and Japan - the countries most destroyed by it - were the ones to recover best at first, in post war Europe. Little wonder that they should also have been the ones to degenerate into sclerosis now, by the way.

yul3452

at 00:24 on March 28th, 2007

I am a bit cynical on the issue of why you can't even own your own experiences and.. describe them. You see, you are just a number much like what the revelation says in the last days when a number literally sticks in your forehead.

It internet site metrics, the number determines "stickiness" and if you can gather some 78,000 people, well ahhh good, But a couple of million hits would probably make some "angel investor" start talking to NP (non-conformist people?) at 10th avenue (going to UBC) on how best to synergize the operation and make it like youtube, skype etc...but bloggi you said it best!