Ike
1/16/2006, 02:19 PM
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"A sports fantasy league company has asked a federal court to decide whether baseball statistics belong in the public domain as history or are the property of major league baseball. (http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/15/baseball.stats.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest) 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?"
"A sports fantasy league company has asked a federal court to decide whether baseball statistics belong in the public domain as history or are the property of major league baseball. (http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/15/baseball.stats.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest) 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?"