TELEVISION PRESENTATION

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Director of video Services

• Oversees the day to day operations for all video departments
• Focuses on football
• Makes strategic recommendations
• Budgets the purchase of video equipment and technology

UF Director of Video Services

• Knicks sue Raptors, Raptors employees and former Knicks employee
• Former employee sent thousands of confidential files
• Play frequency reports
• 3,358 video files
• Raptors head coach was aware, recruited and used the employee to build a guideline for his staff
• Knicks employee forwarded work emails to his personal gmail
• Knicks discovered suspicious actions when his files were accessed more than 2000 times by the defendants

Inspiration

• Rutgers employee requested All-22 film between Rutgers and Penn State, argued it should be viewed under the public records act
• Trade secret defense denied
• Video falls under copyright and proprietary information
• Material and information relating to or associated with a company's products

Caroff v Rutgers (2022)

"Caught in what might appear to be unethical conduct, the defendant naturally tries to switch the litigation's focus to the nature and value of the property taken, and away from the nature of his behavior." - James Pooley

Litigation issue

Trade Secrets

• Losing any element of a trade secret means the secret will cease to exist

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Game recordings

KFC secret recipe

Trade Secrets

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• In 2020 IWLCA leadership claimed a previous agreement was unfair and terminated the contract
• Touchline proved they were forced to confer measurable benefits

Touchline Video v IWLCA (2022)

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Sports Recruits is now one of three official IWLCA sponors

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Sports recruits

Touchline

Litigation Effect

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• Gannett violates an exclusive license granted by WIAA to stream games
• Argued that WIAA violated freedom of the press with the license
• State actors have a right to control and monetize performance works

WIAA v Gannett (2011)

• Schools give a portion of its money making capacity to private entities - Otto & Stippich
• NCAA is granted its own version of due process - Peretti

State Actors & Tarkanian

Mallory Peak, 2023

Copyright Considerations

• SEC requires no "real-time" transmission for "commercial or business" use

• No written policy for games without tickets

• Teams within school may be within different conferences

Ticketing policy

Copyright considerations

• Rise of collegiate esports
• Copyright and intellectual property questions
• Video game publisher owns all copyright and intellectual property claims to their games, Midway Manufacturing Co. v. Artic International, Inc. (1983)

Future Considerations

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