Bad Wigins wrote:
It's a frivolous takedown notice, it happens all the time.
Live sporting events are not copyrightable in the US (see NBA v Motorola). Generally, if you hold the camera, you own the video, unless you signed a contract stating otherwise before attending the event.
It looks like you are right. See this:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090420/0257124562.shtml#commentsAlthough it sounds like some have said a proposed remedy is for the tickets to say, "X gets the copyright to any recordings made by the fan at the game."
I have noticed for the Superbowl etc, there are a ton of fan videos up on youtube. Official game videos, no.
If it is for your family just share the video with them privately to be sure or if you really want you can dispute the takedown notice but I don't see the point.
At first, I was going to say there isn't a market for some random race at a track meet but I said this for Flotrack a while ago and it applies to Runnerspace, the market to get people to pay in high school/college track is mostly consisting of getting parents and relatives and friends to pay to watch their loved ones. Not fans of the sport. Mark Floreani got really upset when I said it but I don't think there is a huge audience of fans to pay to watch college track meets.
Think of it, there is some random college invite. Let's say it's not a local race, but most teams have to travel to. You want to watch your friend/relative run? Fly across the country or drive a few hundred miles or pay to watch online? There might be 2000+ competitors at an event. That's 2000 parents who might be willing to open their checkbooks. Those are the people who will pay $10 or $20 or whatever it is tow watch. Same thing with charging admission for college track meets. Most of the spectators at most schools are are parents/friends. Rojo said at Cornell they used to make a decent amount on track meets because all the parents paid to come watch. Technically I think they are supposed to be able to apply for a free ticket, but usually at track meets that doesn't happen. Same thing applies to NCAA track, I heard very few schools let parents know they can get free tickets.
Contrast that with a sport like women's basketball. You only have 20 sets of parents involved per game. Sports Athletic Departments may not think there is a market for track meets but there is a ton of competitors. Most sports have way more fans than competitors. A close relative is way more likely to pay for something than some casual fan for anything. A college track meet with 40 schools in some ways is like there being 20 women's college basketball games (20 games x 2 schools per game) going on at once. Yet a Sports Department guy thinks, "no one cares about track" so they don't broadcast it themselves.
Flotrack and Runnerspace should charge for what they are doing. My main beef is they don't let people buy a 1 day pass. If I was really into Shannon Rowbury it is not fan friendly to have to get a subscription and cancel it to watch her race once. With streaming so easy to do I think more races might just start streaming themselves and then they can charge a one off price.
The cost to live stream is $0 if you use Youtube. And I just googled and it looks like you can do pay per view on youtube:
https://gigaom.com/2012/04/10/youtube-adds-pay-per-view-to-live-streaming/