CPT's Web Page on Intellectual Property and Sports Statistics

Selected Documents and Articles

• December 9, 1996 article about the NBA broadcasting NBA scores on the internet (by Janet Kornblum)
• November 22, 1996 Comments of STATS Inc., a major publisher of Sports Statistics, on the Proposed Database Protection Treaty which is being considered at the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) Conference in Geneva, December 2-20, 1996.
• November 10, 1996 Government Proposes New Regulation of Sports Statistics and other "Facts" by James Love; first published in INFO-POLICY-NOTES (see also Union for the Public Domain's web page)
• September 3, 1996 NBA v. STATS Inc. and Motorola (939 F. Supp. 1071) Judge Preska ruled in favor of the NBA, forbidding Motorola to disseminate real-time NBA scores over pagers. Here is the full text of the court opinion in this important case. It is currently on appeal.
• August 28, 1996 Article about a legal dispute between America Online and the NBA over real-time dissemination of basketball scores (by Janet Kornblum)
• March 6, 1996 NBA's Complaint Seeking To Enjoin Motorola From Providing Updated Game Information Over Pagers