The video of Bush being booed at a baseball game has been removed by YouTube. They’ve posted a message saying “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by MLB Advanced Media.”
Interesting. President of the United States goes to a baseball game at a stadium paid for with taxpayer money and the crowd boos him. But we have no right to see that without “express written permission of Major League Baseball.”
Congress, while you’re rooting around in the steroid scandal, maybe you should make some adjustments to copyright law, too. Bush’s performance was not part of the game, and cannot possibly be “intellectual property” of Major League Baseball under any reasonable standard of fair play.
Spink Nogales | 01-Apr-08 at 8:01 pm | Permalink
MLB is the only business monopoly blessed by the U.S. Government.
from Wikipedia:
Federal Baseball Club v. National League, 259 U.S. 200 (1922), is a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Major League Baseball was exempt from the provisions of the Sherman Antitrust Act.