http://www.ericjohnolson.com/blog/2006/06/08/mlb-advanced-media-blows-the-save/ Technology. Innovation. Science. VC. Media. :: by Eric Olson Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.ericjohnolson.com/blog/2006/06/08/mlb-advanced-media-blows-the-save/#comment-473 The Wannabe Venture Capitalist » All Your Baseball Are Belong To Us Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:23:01 +0000 http://www.ventureweek.com/blog/2006/06/08/mlb-advanced-media-blows-the-save/#comment-473 [...] MLB Advanced Media continues to make me look stupid for praising their brilliant moves in new media (i.e. showing baseball and other sports online for a fee). First, they went after slingbox and effectively said that people should have to pay twice for content. Now, they (along with the MLBPA) think that baseball players names and historical statistics should be copyrightable. Their main gripe is that there are fantasy baseball leagues who profit from the use of player names and stats by charging users to use their fantasy baseball services. Apparently MLBAM thinks they should a) get a cut of this money or b) wall the information off and only allow MLBAM’s Fantasy League product or c) a combination of a and b. [...] [...] MLB Advanced Media continues to make me look stupid for praising their brilliant moves in new media (i.e. showing baseball and other sports online for a fee). First, they went after slingbox and effectively said that people should have to pay twice for content. Now, they (along with the MLBPA) think that baseball players names and historical statistics should be copyrightable. Their main gripe is that there are fantasy baseball leagues who profit from the use of player names and stats by charging users to use their fantasy baseball services. Apparently MLBAM thinks they should a) get a cut of this money or b) wall the information off and only allow MLBAM’s Fantasy League product or c) a combination of a and b. [...]

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