ANGRY MINUTE #0010: NFL (No Fun League) Copyright Stupidness

Yeah, you’ve seen and heard it about a million times:

“This telecast is copyrighted by the NFL for the private use of our audience. Any other use of this telecast or any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without the NFL’s consent is prohibited.”

Yeah, and I’m a 14-foot twonicorn who loves to paint my nails purple starfire and fly under the sea with my good pal Bubbles the mother frakin monkey!!!!!

That’s called sarcasm kids, that’s cause the NFL’s copyright warning is a bunch of bullsheet. BULLLLLLLSHEEEEEEET!

The NFL wants to SCARE people into thinking they own EVERYTHING about the NFL. If the above copyright was entirely true I couldn’t take a picture of an NFL game (on my own camera even) and SHOW you that picture without the NFL’s consent (and I sure couldn’t post that picture on YouTube or Facebook). That makes NO senses, it is MY picture and I took it on MY equipment. Even if I would take a picture of my TV, while an NFL game is on, I’d still need consent?!?! That is retarded! That’s because the NFL is retarteded and they are LIERS!

How about another example? Well, the copyright says “descriptions”. So on Monday when I’m standing at the water cooler I can’t even DESCRIBE how my Washington Redskins opened a barrel of whoop-ass on them pansy ass Dallas Cowboys. No, I’d need consent from the NFL to even DESCRIBE what I saw. That’s like telling a police office, “I’d love to describe the crime to you but I don’t have the copyright from the criminal to describe what happened.”

What bullsheet. Utter bullsheet.

The NFL can suck on my dingle berries because they are LIERS.

You see here in the good US of A we have a thing called FAIR USE. Look it up if you don’t know (see reference).

Another thing is YOU CANNOT COPYRIGTH HISTORY! No one can copyright that the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, no one can copyright that Obama is our president, and no one can copyright that the Pittsburgh Steelers are the current defending NFL Champions. History happened, so it is free game. The NFL is saying they OWN history. I can’t tell someone that my Redskins are 3-time champs??!?! BULLSHEET!!!!

The NFL are bullies! They are purposely deceiving the public. Hell, they are even FORCING their players, staff, and the MEDIA from using Twitter and services like Twitter to report happenings about the NFL! What babies! Are you scared NFL? Are you scared that since your writers suck and your commentators suck (BOOM, Tough Acting Tinactin! Thank FSM John Madden is retiring, I mean I’ll miss jems like “If they want to win the game they will need to score points”) that people will get their NFL information from sources outside the NFL? Well tough titty because IT’S LEGAL! If I wanted to I could watch an NFL game, and then REPRODUCE said NFL game using my WWE action figures (they are action figures, not dolls) and the NFL wouldn’t be able to do jack sheet except cry about it. Wanna sue me NFL? BE MY GUEST! I’ll happily take you to court because the truth is someone needs to stop these lies. LIER LIER FOOTBALL PANTS ON FIRE!!!

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POSTANGER:

I hate the NFL, I really do. But until someone else brings a football league that can compete then the only thing we’ll have is the NFL. But due to the amount of retarded rednecks in this world, the NFL will continue. Because people would rather watch their teams then raise their kids. Because people would rather live through something that THEY ARE IN NO WAY A PART OF instead of getting off their lazy asses and working towards making their life better.

Frak the NFL! But on the ironic side, GO REDSKINS!!!!!

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REFERENCES:

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/9-a.html
http://www.thisistrue.com/blog-the_nfls_copyright_round_two.html
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2007/03/nfl-fumbles-dmca-takedown-battle-could-face-sanctions.ars
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10322904-2.html?part=rss
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2007/08/ftc-complaint-flags-nfl-mlb-studios-for-overstating-copyright-claims.ars

Tags: Angry Minute, Copyright, First Amendment, Football, Free Speech, Lawsuit, NFL, Television