SEC Enacts New Media Policy
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I wish them luck enforcing this...
Offense sells tickets. Defense wins games. - Paul W. "Bear" Bryant
by TheRedTideConsumes on Aug 7, 2009 4:42 PM CDT reply actions
Easy as pie.
DMCA takedown notices usually result in the immediate take down of either a) the offending material or b) the entire website until the offending material can be eradicated, and this is typically done by the web host, not the site owner.
If this is to push people into
stadiums, it won’t work. I this economy, it’s bad timing to deny fans access to their teams highlights. People are out of work and don’t have extra money for gas, tickets, or PPV. As far as 72 hours later, hell we’re already focused on the next game.
Not on CBS again !!
It's a protectionist move...
….to get people to use the new “digital network” (essentially an iTunes for SEC highlight clips).
Whatever
happened to freedom of speech. Does the SEC think they own the internet? Let us have competiton and a free market. People will watch and pay for what they think is the best
product.
I hate the NCAA more than UT & AU combined. At least with UT & AU you got a fighting chance.
I dont really like this either. The only upside I can force myself to recognize is that this way some of the money goes back to benefit the public institions, as oppossed to the pockets of the “private” press etc.
But last time I checked this was a free enterprise profit economy.
The SEC is not congress and, therefore, they cannot violate the first amendment.
There are no freedom of speech implications here. This is simply a content owner (using that term loosely) choosing to protect its content.
But if they
tell coahes when they can talk to press and limit which press they can talk to etc. to me, although I’m not a lawyer, they are violating a coaches right to free speech.
If I read this right a coach coming off the practice field on say a Tuesday afternoon is not allowed to even talk with a reporter who happens to stop him. Hey I’m sure some coaches don’t to talk to the media, but it has been their decision not the SEC.
And, a local TV station is not allowed to show a clip on Tuesday night of Saturday’s game or any other game played I’m guessing in forever. That sure goes against anything we have ever seen in sports. I would say the TV station definitely has lost rights that have been assumed since the beginning of network sports.
I hate the NCAA more than UT & AU combined. At least with UT & AU you got a fighting chance.
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let the free market let them know, we don’t like their BS.
tell coahes when they can talk to press and limit which press they can talk to etc. to me, although I’m not a lawyer, they are violating a coaches right to free speech.
Again, no, that’s not the case. Here’s what the Constitution says (emphasis supplied):
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
“Congress shall make no law.” The first amendment proscribes government action. The SEC is not the government.
What’s going on here is the coaches are contracting away their right to speak to the press. A right is of questionable value if one can’t waive it. The coaches have decided that they would rather have a fat paycheck and coach in the SEC than have absolute freedom to talk to the press.
Hey Pete if you read this
good explination. SEC can do what Congress can not.
I hate the NCAA more than UT & AU combined. At least with UT & AU you got a fighting chance.
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