Major League Baseball joined growing debate over interactive TV (...
Major League Baseball joined growing debate over interactive TV (ITV) policy at FCC, urging Commission to steer clear of adopting regulations that would diminish intellectual property rights of content owners. In recent ex parte filing in FCC’s ITV inquiry,…
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baseball commissioner’s office said it “firmly believes that market solutions are favorable to government regulations, especially in a market as nascent as that for ITV services.” Agreeing with earlier comments submitted by NFL, baseball commissioner’s office said FCC “should recognize that content owners such as baseball have statutorily created intellectual property rights that protect the content owners from unauthorized uses of their content.” It said proposed ITV nondiscrimination rules might interfere with those rights by allowing others to use baseball’s exclusive content without permission. It also argued that content owners should be free to make their content available in market without regulatory restraints. “Put simply, governmental regulation is no match for the free market in providing content owners fair compensation and providing consumers with greater access to the content they desire,” it said.