[Air-L] Where blogging is no longer allowed

Yosem Companys ycompanys at gmail.com
Thu Aug 20 13:02:31 PDT 2009


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/sports/ncaafootball/20rights.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print
Camera phones, hand-held video cameras and social networking sites like
Twitter<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/twitter/index.html?inline=nyt-org>
have
turned sports fans with Web sites into instant reporters and broadcasters.
But one of the nation’s leading college leagues is drawing a line in the
turf.*  *The Southeastern Conference, home to some of the nation’s most
prominent and lucrative university athletic programs, has issued rules in
the past week prohibiting fans from distributing photographs or video of its
games in real time for commercial use. Like a growing number of pro and
college teams nationwide, the conference sees money to be made online from
the exploits of its athletes.



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