Posted on 02/02/2016 9:29:50 AM PST by Theoria
Troy Haupt is a 47-year-old nurse anesthetist here in North Carolina's Outer Banks. He has a secret to reveal about Super Bowl I: He owns the only known recording of its broadcast.
CBS and NBC, which televised the game, did not preserve any tapes. But the copy that Haupt owns -- of a broadcast that launched the Super Bowl as an enormous shared spectacle that attracts more than 100 million viewers -- might never be seen on any network. The N.F.L. does not want to buy the tapes and has warned Haupt not to sell them to outside parties or else the league will pursue legal action.
Unless the league and Haupt make a deal to resolve the financial differences that have privately divided them since 2005, the tapes will stay in storage in a former mine in upstate New York.
"This year had to be the year, with all the hype of Super Bowl 50," Haupt said.
The tapes are a bizarre heirloom that, for decades, sat largely ignored in the attic of his family's three-bedroom house in Shamokin, Pa., deteriorating from shifting temperatures.
Haupt's father, Martin, taped the game. Haupt never knew him. Haupt and his mother, Beth Rebuck, say they have no idea what he did for a living back then. They also don't know why he went to work on Jan. 15, 1967, with a pair of two-inch Scotch tapes, slipped one, and then the other, into a Quadruplex taping machine and recorded the Green Bay Packers' 35-10 win over the Kansas City Chiefs. He told his family nothing about his day's activity.
It would take another eight years for Martin Haupt to tell his wife what he had done. By then, they had divorced and both had remarried.
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A million bucks to the NFL is like $10 to you and me. Cheapskates.
Makes a lot of sense for the NFL to buy it.
And this has been going on for a long time.
This isn’t the first article I’ve seen about it.
I agree that the rights are not as clear-cut as the lawyer quoted in the article makes it out to be.
“Establishes he was not involved in any way with recording this or knowig about it til way later on.”
Given he was born after the event, that seems not to be the case.
It’s cloying human interest writing.
Arrogant Pukes....
According to the story the is a digital copy of the 2 inch analog tape.
NFL ping
Still the Tape is 50 years old and I am sure it is not stored under the best of conditions.
The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act in 1998, films could generally enjoy 75 years of copyright protection.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/movies/old-films-fall-into-public-domain-under-copyright-law.html
What did the MLB do?
If he has the only copy, why was the game re-broadcast last week?
Meanwhile, the NFL shells out about 60 Mil annually for whatever it is that Roger Goodell does, corruption, mendacity, and all.
Exactly. Makes no sense.
They are mostly incredibly wealthy and yet they will not part with a penny if they can find some way to scam people out of things. That is why they find stupid politicians and populations to pay for their stadiums while getting contracts that allow them to take any and all profits.
Wrong. Disney and the others keep making it worth the while of Congress to keep extending it. Otherwise, folks might actually be able to buy a legal copy of "Song of the South". I think this is what has happened:
1790 - 14 years plus one 14 year extension.
1831 - 28 years plus a 14 year extension
1909 - 28 years plus a 28 year extension
1976 - Life of author plus 50 years OR a flat 75 years for 'works for hire'
1998 - Life of author plus 70 years
So, instead of a win-win deal, the NFL is bound and determined that the person who preserved the tape will not profit from it? Great public relations move, NFL!
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