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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Feb 9, 2016 • 4:23:21pm

Actually you are completely wrong. If you use any part of the broadcast for a commercial purpose, like a news program that runs commercials, you owe the NFL lots of money. I’ll give you an example of fair use. When Joe Piscopo does his Frank Sinatra impersonations, he has to use songs that are in the public domain. He explained once when he did a SHowtime special that if he were to sing “My Way” as Frank in a show that he charged admission or used for any other commercial purpose, he said he would have to pay whoever held the commercial rights about $25,000, and the producers didn’t have that kind of budget.
The NFL never says you can’t record the game to watch on your own later on. You just can’t use it in a commercial venture without their permission.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Feb 9, 2016 • 4:27:04pm

Disney charges schools money to use their stories when kids put on their plays at school. One time my daughter’s school “splurged” and did “Alladin” for about $3500. They could have done a different show like “Wizard of Oz” for about half that, and that is exactly what they did the next year.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Feb 10, 2016 • 11:47:47am

This telecast is copyrighted by the NFL for the private use of our audience. Any other use of this telecast or any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without the NFL’s consent is prohibited.”

Thanos, I’m not quite sure why it was so hard to understand what the NFL (or anybody else with intellectual property rights) is doing here. You actually wrote it yourself above, that the NFL is not referring to your privately held recording of the game that you want to watch later, or with your family and friends. As I said above, it is only when you use the pictures, descriptions, or accounts for a commercial purpose that causes the legal problem. You see it all the time when you watch a DVD, but everybody just skips those FBI or interpol warnings. The other sports leagues do the same thing. There isn’t really anything unique about the NFL here.

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KGxvi  Feb 11, 2016 • 9:03:02am
Any other use of this telecast or any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without the NFL’s consent is prohibited

Depends on how broad a reading you want to take of “any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game”. A newspaper or news broadcast (or a blog for that matter) doesn’t need the NFL’s consent to report the final score and/or stats of the game. It’s the “of the game” that really is an issue. Saying “of this broadcast” would be more legally correct. But when you say “of the game” you’re suggesting that the copyright is so strong that someone who was in the stadium can’t produce a picture or write up of the game. That’s just flat out ridiculous.

(I’m a lawyer, but I’ve done next to no work in IP law, I know just enough to be slightly more dangerous than a layperson)


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