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Thanks to a new NFL policy, something will soon be in short supply on news-media Web sites: video of almost anything related to the NFL or its players.In
a move designed to protect the Internet operations of its 32 teams, the pro football league has told news organizations that it will no longer permit them to carry unlimited online video clips of players, coaches or other officials, including video that the news organizations gather themselves on a team's premises. News organizations can post no more than 45 seconds per day of video shot at a team's facilities, including news conferences, interviews and practice-field reports.The
The policy, announced last month with little fanfare, has frustrated journalists, who say it constricts tpublic'sc's access to information about the nation's most popular spectator sport. A coalition of news organizations has been quietly lobbying the league for months to change trule.Legal
gal experts say the policies do not violate any laws, because the NFL is entitled to establish the terms of access to its privately ownfacilities.The
The NFL is the only major-league sport that places such restrictions on Web video. Major League Baseball, the NBA and the NHL permit unlimited use of video on Web sites apart from game footage, said JJenksnks, the Philadelphia Inquirer's executive sports editor and the outgoing president of the Associated Press Sports Editors, which has negotiated with the NFL over its online video policy since last fall.
a move designed to protect the Internet operations of its 32 teams, the pro football league has told news organizations that it will no longer permit them to carry unlimited online video clips of players, coaches or other officials, including video that the news organizations gather themselves on a team's premises. News organizations can post no more than 45 seconds per day of video shot at a team's facilities, including news conferences, interviews and practice-field reports.The
The policy, announced last month with little fanfare, has frustrated journalists, who say it constricts tpublic'sc's access to information about the nation's most popular spectator sport. A coalition of news organizations has been quietly lobbying the league for months to change trule.Legal
gal experts say the policies do not violate any laws, because the NFL is entitled to establish the terms of access to its privately ownfacilities.The
The NFL is the only major-league sport that places such restrictions on Web video. Major League Baseball, the NBA and the NHL permit unlimited use of video on Web sites apart from game footage, said JJenksnks, the Philadelphia Inquirer's executive sports editor and the outgoing president of the Associated Press Sports Editors, which has negotiated with the NFL over its online video policy since last fall.
Come on, is the league really being threatened by CNN having online video of a team practice on its web site?
Unfortunately, I'll never have to retire this picture.
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