You got an SLR in, but try "filming" a game with it - you'll be stopped in under 10 minutes, I promise you
Also, that isn't like the streaming sites where you can be at a desk in Sweden and re-broadcasting games fairly anonymously... they'd just walk up to your seat and escort you out.
Um, no? There is nothing copyrighted about the on-field action of a football game. All they can do is kick you out of the stadium.
By your logic, If Fox has the superbowl, NBC could sit above an open stadium in a helicopter and broadcast the whole game - I don't think thats the case, but I don't have the laws to back it up.
That is exactly what he just said....
The NFL leases exclusive rights to TV stations to broadcast the action.
Anyone else who broadcasts the action will get sued and shut down.
As far as I know I am allowed to record anything I want. Perhaps not with audio, but I am not aware of any law that gives someone the right to prevent video recording.
They have the right to kick you out (if they catch you), but not to prevent recording.
If you know of such a law, please post it.
2007 the 2nd circuit upheld an anti-bootlegging law, that prevents people from selling unauthorized recordings of live concerts.
I don't agree with it, but I think that under the law an NFL "performance" might be covered.
Of course the concert is a performance of a copyrighted work so who knows unless the teams are merely "performing" copyrighted written plays?
Regardless, its an awful lot of work which is a) still illegal (therefore risky) b) difficult to market and c) completely obsolete the second the NFL network starts a new TV/online network for it