Author: Lonnie Cook
Date: 13:26:02 01/09/00
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On January 08, 2000 at 12:10:49, Tim Mirabile wrote: >On January 08, 2000 at 11:37:09, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On January 08, 2000 at 10:39:48, pete wrote: >> >>>Net64 had the exclusive rights for broadcasting the event due to ICC admins. >>>They argued a little so it only became clear at game 5 that Net64 was right. >>> >>>ICC admins clearly explained this. So why are you making this up here ? >> >>What is Net64 bye the way? >> >>No one owns a chessgame. Just loading the game from the WWW browser >>as it's on the internet and showing it on a board is different than >>using the exclusive analysis of a channel. > >It's a grey area I think. Suppose I had a chess club, where people meet in >person, and I brought in a computer to access the Net64 website, get the moves, >and then display them to the club on a demo board, adding commentary. Isn't >that kind of the same thing ICC is doing, only instead of doing it in meatspace >they're doing it in cyberspace? Or is the internet a broadcast medium, where >this would be analogous to one TV network rebroadcasting another network's >football games? But ICC is essentially only retransmitting moves - analogous to >giving the score or play by play of a live sporting event rather that >rebroadcasting the whole game. Still, I've heard that some company was >prevented from doing just this with live scores, but of course it is perfectly >legal to report the same information on the news or in the papers after the game >is over. Still I don't understand how live reporting is so conceptually >different from after the fact reporting that one could be restricted and the >other not. So, to sum it all up, who knows? :) It would behoove ICC in the future to look and see the legal boundaries in this area to cover themselves or others, just my food for thought cause it will come up again.
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