Reposting 8-second sports clips infringes copyright The High Court of England and Wales has ruled against an app developer who encouraged users to post eight-second sports clips under the guise that it was a social network. Mr Justice Arnold rejected the defence offered by Fanatix developer Will Muirhead that he could avoid infringement using either a fair use defence or a user …
“fanatix seeks to disrupt the US$40 billion global sports media rights market”
I suspect that comments like this might have sunk him. Something presented as a fan site might have got through. Going head to head with your supporters isn't a good idea & ECB might have realised that but that sort of talk would be too much of a challenge.
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"mere marketing nonsense that sounds big but is not really expected to be believed. "
And this is why when being "disruptive", one needs to remember that everything you've said on the record can and will be used against you, especially the "marketing nonsense", when you fall foul of the law. If you make bullshit claims to hype up the investors, they can come back to bite you.
Marketing and advertising people take note!
Eh.. plenty of streaming sites around to get cricket - quality is not great but you need something to stop you watching too many hours.
Cricket board should FO and sell to terrestrial broadcasters .. ah wait.. there's too little demand now. You need Sky to see it and as a direct result fewer youngsters are interested.
They weren't paying their playing staff vast amounts of money maybe? You know, the ones that actually play the sport.
Or transfer fees are bigger now than they were so the clubs need to recoup.
Or, instead of being entertainment, which is what they basically are, they've now been taken over by the money men to whom sports is nothing but a cash cow and their own personal bank.
"Cricket board should FO and sell to terrestrial broadcasters"
Couldn't agree more. I'd looked forward to spending a good deal of my retirement watching the Beeb test match covering apart from fulminating when they seem to think that tennis fans can watch two channels at once. But not at the expense of paying Uncle Rupert.
"Since nobody else has said it; what Fanatix was doing is just not cricket!"
Traditional English cricket-watching for most people consists of stopping briefly in the park to watch a bowler run up, see what happens and pass on. Eight seconds seems about right to replicate this experience.
But to get the real flavour the clips need to consist of some would-be hard man bowler taking a huge run-up, slowing at the last moment and delivering a full-toss which the batsman muffs and scrapes a single.
I understand that the Premier League went after some publicans for showing games sourced over the satellite under the EU Freedom of Trade because they showed their on-screen logo without permission.
icon because it's the nearest thing to my temper going off all Thermite.
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