Isaac
Years ago
NCAA limits live blogging, threatens ejections
Instead of welcoming more coverage, the NCAA has introduced tough rules with regard to live blogging by media with credentials at NCAA sports games.
If you're covering NCAA football, make sure you don't blog more than 3 times in a single quarter. If it's baseball, one post an inning is all you get. For basketball, it's five times per half, once during half-time, and twice in overtime. If you don't follow the rules expect to get ejected and have your press credentials pulled.(For the confused, a blog item would be the equivalent to a forum post - from a single line up to a few paragraphs.)
Bit more coverage here at TechDirt
Recently, the MLB got upset over fantasy comps using their stats in third-party games and a number of big leagues have required an expensive license to use player names, likenesses and rosters in games.
Now, the NCAA have these rules for those with media passes which don't prevent one from buying a ticket and posting/calling through results from your seat, but from memory there was a case of someone getting ejected for doing that in the past (reason: no media pass).
Are they going too far?
