
When the high school football playoffs begin Tuesday and the play-offs with other major sports are in progress, Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association, the governing body of high school sports is still a dispute with media companies who want to live video stream on championships.
This debate has been going on for months. In December, Gannett Co., Inc., publisher of Post ~ Crescent is Appleton, Wisconsin and nine other daily newspapers, and the Wisconsin Newspaper Association named co-defendants in a lawsuit filed under the WIAA. WIAA claimed that the media broke the WIAA what a full-time media claims of ownership rights.
WIAA has argued that it has the right "to control the transmission, Internet stream, photo, picture, film, video tape, audio tape, by writing, drawing or other description and a description of any game, game action, game information, or commercial use has the same athletic event sponsors, and that it has the right to grant exclusive rights for the tournament ... and other events that it sponsors. "
WIAA has with the company called When We Were Young Productions, the rights of a championship.
This week, Todd Clark, WIAA spokesman, said his organization still intended to monitor the policy. If the media market will want to live-stream video, they have to buy the right to do so.
Peter Fox, director, Wisconsin Newspaper Association, said Wednesday that he was not aware of the magazine, which was designed by a live stream football playoff games or other sporting event covered.
"Our policy is unchanged, Clark said.
In the meantime, the lawsuit is still working on it through the state courts.