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Morris Communications v. PGA Tour: Battle Over the Rights to Real-Time Sports Scores
Ist Teil von
Berkeley technology law journal, 2005-01, Vol.20 (1), p.3-21
Ort / Verlag
Berkeley: students of the Boalt Hall School of Law
Erscheinungsjahr
2005
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The new form of instantaneous communication made possible by the Internet has created an exciting attraction for sports enthusiasts: real-time sports scores. Real-time scores represent a significant potential source of revenues for sports conglomerates. This potential has created a competitive market for the scores and has led to litigation over who controls the right to disseminate and thereby profit from the information. This note explores legal tactics and theories applicable to controversies over real-time sports scores, focusing primarily on the Morris Communications v PGA Tour case, where the court suggested that a compilation of scores constitutes property that the company who created the compilation may legally protect. The paper discusses two legal regimes that parties have used in attempts to create or deny ownership of real-time sports scores: the Sherman Act and the doctrine of misappropriation. It also compares the Second Circuit's treatment of real-time sports scores in NBA v Motorola, Inc to the Eleventh Circuit's analysis in PGA Tour, and concludes that, although both emphasized free-riding as central to their holdings, the courts ultimately based their decisions on varying interpretations of property issues.