Friday, November 16, 2012

Reporter reprimanded for over-tweeting NCAA game; who owns second-screen rights?

Sports leagues have always held a tight rein on real-time stats, but what if you’re a credentialed reporter tweeting during a game? The University of Washington has reprimanded a reporter this week for tweeting too much — 53 tweets in all — during a NCAA basketball game, reports GeekWire. How many is too many? While “real-time” coverage is limited to rights-holders, the UW allows “periodic updates of scores, statistics or other brief descriptions of the competition” as long as these updates are limited to 20 during baseketball games and 45 during football games.

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