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MLB to Impose Online Content Restrictions

Submitted by cubsnet on Tue, 2008-02-26 12:43.

Via The Biz of Baseball, Sports Business Journal reports that "starting this coming season news organizations will be limited to no more than 120 seconds of audio or video from [MLB] facilities. To add to that, 'with game highlights restricted only to rights holders that have a separate rights deal with MLB Advanced Media.' As further reported:

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The 120 seconds of MLB content cannot be streamed live, and like the NFL’s rule, the cap does not apply to news outlets providing their own analysis or reporting, commonly known as “talking head” material. The new MLB rules, in development for roughly six months, also prohibit news organizations from posting more than seven photos from any game online and from creating a photo gallery on their Web sites. In addition, non-text content created at MLB ballparks cannot stay up on a news outlet Web site for more than 72 hours.
Does that list bit about photos mean that something like this is going away? That would be a shame.

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As David Pinto writes, "MLB

Submitted by cubsnet on Wed, 2008-03-05 13:11.

As David Pinto writes, "MLB should be subsidizing bloggers, or at least providing them with all the pictures and videos they can use. It is free advertising, after all."

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Baseball is about history...

Submitted by diana on Wed, 2008-03-19 14:34.

A big part of baseball is about its history. I'm regularly looking up historic baseball game statistics, stories and sometimes...if I'm really fortunate, I find game photos too.

The MLB should encourage that content related to their sport be maintained online rather than insisting that it deleted.

Encouraging folks to follow their teams and know their history should be a MLB priority. Instead of denying access to game photos of the past, the MLB should encourage game photos...even offer camera days at every ballpark, photo contests, etc. Those camera day photos are very likely to continue to remind the fans of their great day at the ballpark and keep them coming back over the years.

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