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Post by grandsalami on Apr 11, 2019 14:05:05 GMT -5
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Post by James Dunne on Apr 11, 2019 14:05:46 GMT -5
My favorite sport is run by the dumbest people.
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Post by grandsalami on Apr 11, 2019 14:24:52 GMT -5
My favorite sport is run by the dumbest people. Yup.
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Post by grandsalami on Apr 11, 2019 14:32:28 GMT -5
You could write a book on how MLB is actively killing its own sport.
They still do DCMA takedown notices when people share highlights of mlb games/plays on twitter.
Where do most of the ”younger generations” spend most of their time? Places like twitter and Snapchat etc.
You want to grow the sports beyond the middle aged folks who make up a good majority of the sport currently? you don’t do what MLB is doing. You do what the NBA is doing.
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Post by mredsox89 on Apr 11, 2019 14:37:48 GMT -5
I just don't see how MLB/MILB eliminating teams/sites from posting highlights benefits MLB/MILB in any way.
Your hardcore fans are the only ones who are going to likely be sitting and watching a full game. The younger generations almost certainly aren't, and highlights is a way to keep them involved.
It's just mind blowing and provides no benefit to the game, which is searching for newer fans. Just lunacy
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Post by sittingstill on Apr 11, 2019 15:02:31 GMT -5
To play devil's advocate--MiLB owns the game broadcasts, and the coverage and quality of the broadcasts has definitely been improving. Allowing sites to repost content without a licensing agreement isn't necessarily smart business. Last I saw the guidelines for what the teams themselves can post hadn't been released yet, but presumably teams will indeed be able to post highlights to social media. I do think there's a balance to be struck--if you see game video of MLB players you can assume MLB receives some measurable effect of promotional benefit even if it's been posted without ownership--but allowing sites to benefit from freely reposting your content "without the express written consent of Major [or Minor] League Baseball" or an agreement isn't necessarily the best model either.
I do say this as a content producer, not just a follower of the minor leagues.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2019 15:56:38 GMT -5
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 11, 2019 19:39:22 GMT -5
To play devil's advocate--MiLB owns the game broadcasts, and the coverage and quality of the broadcasts has definitely been improving. Allowing sites to repost content without a licensing agreement isn't necessarily smart business. Last I saw the guidelines for what the teams themselves can post hadn't been released yet, but presumably teams will indeed be able to post highlights to social media. I do think there's a balance to be struck--if you see game video of MLB players you can assume MLB receives some measurable effect of promotional benefit even if it's been posted without ownership--but allowing sites to benefit from freely reposting your content "without the express written consent of Major [or Minor] League Baseball" or an agreement isn't necessarily the best model either. I do say this as a content producer, not just a follower of the minor leagues. I think you're conflating two things. I think you're referring to the thing from yesterday (or whenever it was) that MiLB sent a memo to teams about what they could post on social media. I get that for the reasons you state. This is MiLB telling BA to take down its own video (I'm pretty sure at least) from games. In other words, they don't want people like, say, me going and posting video from a game that I took myself. That's not a content-producing issue. That's a "trying to create a monopoly on in-game scouting video for MLB Pipeline" issue.
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Post by sittingstill on Apr 11, 2019 20:31:01 GMT -5
Strictly speaking, though, MLB parks have always required that you not shoot video of the game--only stills. I've always assumed that was the case for MiLB parks as well. It crosses a line into a broadcast of a game to which they own the rights. I actually think they just didn't care when fewer MiLB parks were covered by MiLB tv.
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