It’s all about the $$$$ not about the fans that couldn’t get an over-priced ticket to attend.
A work cannot be copyrighted prior to its existence on a tangible medium. Since the players in the stand see the game prior to it being transcribed on any tangible medium, that means it isn’t copyrighted when they see it. Since copyright law, unlike patent law, allows people to publish independently-derived works, how can someone’s re-expression of something that isn’t copyrighted violate copyright law?
Score another one for the National Collegiate A-hole Association. Good grief.
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