NBA Deletes Evidence Of Players From All Team Websites Due To Intellectual Property

As you may have heard, the Players Association NBA and the NBA has not reached its limit last night to reach a new collective agreement, and thus began a strike, lockout / work. Of course, we are not a sports blog, so what is interesting about this to us? Well .... Apparently, these days, webmasters of websites of all NBA teams fought like crazy, because they believe that when players are blocked, there may be no mention or image of a player any NBA website:

This is because when the clock strikes midnight in the current CBA, all these images and videos of NBA players have to disappear from the properties belonging to the NBA Digital. Depending on how you interpret the "fair use", the ban would include the mere mention of the name of a player on a site belonging to the NBA, despite the different teams have different interpretations of this provision. is ESPN ... not elaborate on what he really believes it would violate this. Of course not

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, although it is implicit. There is no copyright in names. And copyright on the images to be held by the person who took the pictures, not the players. I suppose it's more a question of rights of publicity, we discussed a lot lately. But these are generally based on a patchwork of state laws. And yet I do not see how it would prevent teams

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players who were on the team. This is factual information. But not according to the teams:

Other gray areas that are still under discussion: What about a picture of a Lakers fan Kobe Bryant, wearing a No. 24 jersey? What is a typical retrospective John Stockton-Karl Malone Jazz team? Make tweets Twitter team official power that mention a player and / or a link to an image to be removed? What about Facebook messages?


Nobody seems to know for certain the answers to these questions and criteria that appear to be arbitrary. Based on more than one staff member of the team Web site, cut the images of retired players at the moment is in 1992-93 - the first season of Shaquille O'Neal in the league. And social media is an area still struggling with the deadline approaching.

However strict border, the revision of the architecture of these sites is a laborious process that has many talented people in the league web very stressed. The NBA has built and equipped each team a "wire", a site that will take the place of existing facilities, much more sophisticated. The steel structure is a rudimentary version of the site without a lot of smart technology, we have used to. Consequently, all 30 team sites will look almost identical.

seems that the 'new' sites are in place. I looked at all on a computer in some places, and while players can be of the age (in years), most traces of modern players are gone. It

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