Last year I was asked by a reporter from the Seattle Post Intelligencer (who didn?t really write about it), what I thought the ?next big thing? for the changing paradigm in sports information and the information glut online. My response was simple. ?Video,? I told the reporter. ?Video could change the way sports and organizations control content, like Napster did for music.? It?s evident that the NFL agrees with me. Last month, the league enacted a new policy that does not allow for non-NFL official sites to have more than 45 seconds of new content filmed on location (training camps, etc.) per day, per site. 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. If you live outside the NY Metro area, like me, this basically limits what you can find online in terms of interviews and such. It might not matter much right now, but when the season kicks up, I think you will feel the difference. Your only real option for video content will be the official Jets? site, which I have no problem with in principle, but what bugs me about it is the proprietary nature of the content, there?s no options to share videos, or even send someone a link. Other than saying ?click here, then click this ? then this ? ? which gets old real fast. The Houston Chronicle had a funny take on this that I saw today on Deadspin. For example, by this rule, this video from MSG, should be considered contraband materials. Jets
What if theres an extreme interview or something, and its a minute long? Im not allowed to watch it. gay
You can watch that but only on the teams site. Any other website with video outside league owned sites will be limited to :45.
Can you combine your days? Like if you have not posted something in 2 days can make a 90 second clip? If you add up all of the offeason maybe you can save up your seconds and do something really special.
This seems excessively controlling. If a news team gets its own video, shot on its own equipment, nobody should be able to stop it from showing as much as it wants. Isn't that freedom of information?
What's the difference between a 'News Organization' having it's footage controlled by a billion dollar, um, telecommunications company working on new products that is does not want to be seen by competitors... and a billion dollar football organization wanting to control the footage of how their team is developing on team premises? It's private enterprise and a lot of money is at stake. I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner.
