Question

The national football league (nfl) owns the copyright to the broadcasts of its games. it licenses local television stations to telecast certain games and maintains a "blackout rule," which prohibits stations from broadcasting home games that are not sold out 72 hours before the game starts. certain home games of the cleveland team were not sold out, and the nfl blocked local broadcast. but several bars in the cleveland area were able to pick up the game's signal by using special antennas. the nfl wanted the bars to stop showing the games. what did it do? was it unethical of the bars to broadcast the games that they were able to pick up? apart from the nfl's legal rights, do you think it had the moral right to stop the bars from broadcasting the games?

Answer 1

The answer for this question would be it obtained an injunction, grounded on a violation of the NFL's copyright in the broadcasts. The permanent injunction forbidden the bars from showing or displaying any blacked-out games without written agreement or permission.