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Xion
RealPoor Guru
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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Location: Los Angeles, CA
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 Posted: 01/16/06 - 06:27 Post subject: How ridiculous is this...
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http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/01/16/0624217.shtml
| Quote: | | "A sports fantasy league company has asked a federal court to decided whether baseball statistics belong in the public domain as history or are the property of major league baseball. Basically, they had been licensing the statistics for nine cents (US) per gross from the Major League Baseball Players Association. But MLB recently bought the rights to be the sole licensor and has refused to renew the license of the fantasy league company. From the article: 'Major League Baseball has claimed that intellectual property law makes it illegal for fantasy league operators to commercially exploit the identities and statistical profiles of big league players.' What does the Slashdot community think? Shoud Barry Bonds' record 73 single season homeruns be in the public domain, or should I worry about having to pay royalties for the first part of this compound sentence?" |
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Plat4PoP
RealPoor Jedi
Joined: 12 Oct 2002
Posts: 14376
Location: USA
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Posted: 01/16/06 - 06:38 Post subject:
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you should have to pay royalties for posting that
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ATM Banana
RealPoor Master of Posts
Joined: 02 Jan 2003
Posts: 8575
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Posted: 01/16/06 - 06:46 Post subject:
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your avatar is wayyy too distracting... lol
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Ishmael
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Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Posts: 4446
Location: The US of A
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Posted: 01/16/06 - 11:27 Post subject:
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I don't like it, I don't like it one bit.
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Callaren
RealPoor Sensei
Joined: 03 Dec 2003
Posts: 1598
Location: South Jersey
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Posted: 01/16/06 - 13:15 Post subject:
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| ATM Banana wrote: | | your avatar is wayyy too distracting... lol |
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