Premier league 'developing software to stop fans sharing video' – F1 to do same?
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The English Premier (football) League is warning fans not to upload footage from matches onto video sharing sites and says it’s developing software to prevent it from happening:
“It’s a breach of copyright and we would discourage fans from doing it, we’re developing technologies like gif crawlers, Vine crawlers, working with Twitter to look to curtail this kind of activity.”
He added: “I know it sounds as if we’re killjoys but we have to protect our intellectual property.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/28796590
The Premier League has a web video highlights contract with two British newspapers, which this is obviously being done to protect.
It’s probably only a matter of time before we see F1 cracking down in this way – whether it will go hand-in-hand with an online video highlights deal is another matter.
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