Re: [Videolib] Copyright and the First Super Bowl — from Plagiarism Today

[Jessica Rosner]

Not remotely a fan of NFL and how it operates but this guy is an idiot who
reminds of Al Dettlof a deranged film collector who had the only surviving
copy of the 1910 Edison Frankenstein. There was no copyright issue but
Detloff also thought it was worth a million dollars and when no one would
give it to him, he would carry it chained to his wrist ( yes really) . When
he died his body was not found for weeks as he had no friends or relatives
and the film became available.
I would think $30,000 is pretty good money for something you can't sell or
exploit because you don't own it and no way is it worth anywhere near a
million bucks ( a figure apparently made up by Sports Illustrated). I would
take the the thirty grand and maybe get them to throw in tickets to a super
bowl

As noted NFL has a lot of material from the game and thinks the entire game
untouched would actually be largely boring. I think this is just a case of
greed and stupidity by Mr. Harwood.


On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Jenni Olson  wrote:

> Not sure if anyone else has posted this, apologies if it has already been
> shared. Seemed like an item of interest. And who knew there was a
> publication called Plagiarism Today!?
>
>
>
>
> https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2016/01/13/copyright-and-the-first-super-bowl/
>
> On Friday, January 15, 2015, the NFL Network will do something that many
> previously thought was impossible: Rebroadcast the first Super Bowl
> 
> .
>
> The legend of the first Super Bowl has been known for some time. It was
> (and in many ways still is) lost to history. All known copies of the game
> were either destroyed or had deteriorated
>  before
> they could be preserved. Clips and parts of the game survived, but the full
> game seemed to be lost to the sands of time.
>
> However, in 2005, a nearly complete video of the game surfaced
> .
> A Virginia man whose father had recorded the tapes on a stable format not
> only had the game on tape, but had it well-preserved.
>
> But when he tried to take the tape public, he ran into a myriad of
> problems between copyright law and an uncooperative NFL that kept the tape
> in the dark.
>
> Instead, the NFL has opted to piece together the game from available clips
> and it claims to have found all 145 play and are piecing it together to
> create a complete game. Combined with new commentary and packaging, what
> the NFL Network will air on Friday may be Super Bowl 1, but it won’t be the
> game as those in 1967 experienced it.
>
> To understand this, we have to look at just how this game was lost, then
> found and then lost again.
> The History of Super Bowl 1
>
> [image: NFL AFL Score]On January 15, 1967, in Los Angeles Memorial
> Coliseum, the National Football League’s (NFL) Green Bay Packers and the
> American Football League’s (AFL) Kansas City Chiefs squared off to settle
> a rivalry between the two leagues
>  and play in
> then known as the First AFL-NFL World Championship Game, a title that would
> be retroactively changed to Super Bowl 1.
>
> It was a largely uneventful game with Green Bay making short work of
> Kansas City, winning the game 35-10 in front of a stadium littered with
> empty seats. Instead of big names like The Who, Slash, The Black Eyed Peas
> or Madonna, the Grambling Marching Band teamed up with the University of
> Arizona Symphonic Marching Band to put on the halftime show.
>
> One thing the game did get was plenty of TV coverage
> .
> Since the NFL and AFL were separate leagues (they had begun to merge but
> wouldn’t become two conferences in the same league until 1970), the two
> leagues had separate TV contracts. CBS Held the NFL broadcast rights and
> NBC held the AFL rights. Due to that, both stations simulcast the game,
> shooting it out to a combined 51 million viewers.
>
> However, all of that coverage did not save it from being lost. Tapes of
> both the NBC and CBS broadcast were lost over the years. By the 2000s, the
> lack of a complete tape of the game had become widely known and, in 2005, 
> Sport
> Illustrated listed it as one of the “lost treasures” of sports
> .
>
> It was at that point that a man named Steve Harwood came forward, claiming
> to have a nearly-complete copy of the game.
> The Last (Known) Surviving Tape
>
> Following the Sports Illustrated article, a Virginia man named Steve
> Harwood came forward and claimed that he had a copy of the game, namely of
> the CBS broadcast.
>
> According 

[Videolib] Copyright and the First Super Bowl — from Plagiarism Today

[Jenni Olson]

Not sure if anyone else has posted this, apologies if it has already been 
shared. Seemed like an item of interest. And who knew there was a publication 
called Plagiarism Today!?



https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2016/01/13/copyright-and-the-first-super-bowl/

On Friday, January 15, 2015, the NFL Network will do something that many 
previously thought was impossible: Rebroadcast the first Super Bowl 
.

The legend of the first Super Bowl has been known for some time. It was (and in 
many ways still is) lost to history. All known copies of the game were either 
destroyed or had deteriorated 
 before they 
could be preserved. Clips and parts of the game survived, but the full game 
seemed to be lost to the sands of time.

However, in 2005, a nearly complete video of the game surfaced 
. A 
Virginia man whose father had recorded the tapes on a stable format not only 
had the game on tape, but had it well-preserved.

But when he tried to take the tape public, he ran into a myriad of problems 
between copyright law and an uncooperative NFL that kept the tape in the dark.

Instead, the NFL has opted to piece together the game from available clips and 
it claims to have found all 145 play and are piecing it together to create a 
complete game. Combined with new commentary and packaging, what the NFL Network 
will air on Friday may be Super Bowl 1, but it won’t be the game as those in 
1967 experienced it.

To understand this, we have to look at just how this game was lost, then found 
and then lost again.

The History of Super Bowl 1

On January 15, 1967, in Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the National Football 
League’s (NFL) Green Bay Packers and the American Football League’s (AFL) 
Kansas City Chiefs squared off to settle a rivalry between the two leagues 
 and play in then 
known as the First AFL-NFL World Championship Game, a title that would be 
retroactively changed to Super Bowl 1.

It was a largely uneventful game with Green Bay making short work of Kansas 
City, winning the game 35-10 in front of a stadium littered with empty seats. 
Instead of big names like The Who, Slash, The Black Eyed Peas or Madonna, the 
Grambling Marching Band teamed up with the University of Arizona Symphonic 
Marching Band to put on the halftime show.

One thing the game did get was plenty of TV coverage 
.
 Since the NFL and AFL were separate leagues (they had begun to merge but 
wouldn’t become two conferences in the same league until 1970), the two leagues 
had separate TV contracts. CBS Held the NFL broadcast rights and NBC held the 
AFL rights. Due to that, both stations simulcast the game, shooting it out to a 
combined 51 million viewers.

However, all of that coverage did not save it from being lost. Tapes of both 
the NBC and CBS broadcast were lost over the years. By the 2000s, the lack of a 
complete tape of the game had become widely known and, in 2005, Sport 
Illustrated listed it as one of the “lost treasures” of sports 
.

It was at that point that a man named Steve Harwood came forward, claiming to 
have a nearly-complete copy of the game.

The Last (Known) Surviving Tape

Following the Sports Illustrated article, a Virginia man named Steve Harwood 
came forward and claimed that he had a copy of the game, namely of the CBS 
broadcast.

According to Harwood, his father had recorded the game using a videotape 
machine at his work. Harwood claims he did so in hopes that the tape would 
become valuable and, with it being the last surviving copy, Harwood’s father 
seemed to have been right.

Upon learning how sought after it was, Harwood immediately took the tape to the 
Paley Center for Media  in New York for 
preservation and restoration. There, they restored the tape, bringing it back 
to its former glory and

The tape, to be clear, isn’t 100% complete. It doesn’t include the halftime 
show and portions of the third quarter are missing. However, of a game where 
only clips and short portions had been known to survive, it was an amazing 
discovery and a piece of sports history.

However, it was to be a piece of sports history that no one would be able to 
enjoy, at least not yet.

Copyright and the NFL

After realizing the value in the tape, Harwood immediately sought to sell it 
and approached the NFL. However, the NFL was less than interested in the 
broadcast.

According to his lawyer, Harwood claimed the tapes were valued at more than $1 
million 

Re: [Videolib] Copyright and the First Super Bowl — from Plagiarism Today

[Dennis Doros]

Well, having watched it as an 8-year-old (I still have the program from the
game -- the NFL sent it to me for free when I wrote to ask for one!) and
seeing games from that era today, I do know what they mean when they say
it's not presentable for modern day audiences. We have been so accustomed
to all the information given to us at all times on the screen (the score,
down, yards-to-go, time left in the game) and the numerous statistics (men
and their numbers may be a stereotype but it's true) that also goes along
with fantasy football that fans interact with as the game goes on, that
early broadcasts give you a sense of uneasiness. The screen is *too* quiet
and you have to "really" follow the game and the announcers as it
progresses.

The other thing I liked is that the owner did have the video preserved and
it was done at a reputable lab. And I'm not that much of a sports fan, by
the way, but it's a great way to pass the time when you're going through
emails. (Go Kerber!)

Best regards,
Dennis Doros
Milestone Film & Video
PO Box 128 / Harrington Park, NJ 07640
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Jenni Olson  wrote:

> Not sure if anyone else has posted this, apologies if it has already been
> shared. Seemed like an item of interest. And who knew there was a
> publication called Plagiarism Today!?
>
>
>
>
> https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2016/01/13/copyright-and-the-first-super-bowl/
>
> On Friday, January 15, 2015, the NFL Network will do something that many
> previously thought was impossible: Rebroadcast the first Super Bowl
> 
> .
>
> The legend of the first Super Bowl has been known for some time. It was
> (and in many ways still is) lost to history. All known copies of the game
> were either destroyed or had deteriorated
>  before
> they could be preserved. Clips and parts of the game survived, but the full
> game seemed to be lost to the sands of time.
>
> However, in 2005, a nearly complete video of the game surfaced
> .
> A Virginia man whose father had recorded the tapes on a stable format not
> only had the game on tape, but had it well-preserved.
>
> But when he tried to take the tape public, he ran into a myriad of
> problems between copyright law and an uncooperative NFL that kept the tape
> in the dark.
>
> Instead, the NFL has opted to piece together the game from available clips
> and it claims to have found all 145 play and are piecing it together to
> create a complete game. Combined with new commentary and packaging, what
> the NFL Network will air on Friday may be Super Bowl 1, but it won’t be the
> game as those in 1967 experienced it.
>
> To understand this, we have to look at just how this game was lost, then
> found and then lost again.
> The History of Super Bowl 1
>
> [image: NFL AFL Score]On January 15, 1967, in Los Angeles Memorial
> Coliseum, the National Football League’s (NFL) Green Bay Packers and the
> American Football League’s (AFL) Kansas City Chiefs squared off to settle
> a rivalry between the two leagues
>  and play in
> then known as the First AFL-NFL World Championship Game, a title that would
> be retroactively changed to Super Bowl 1.
>
> It was a largely uneventful game with Green Bay making short work of
> Kansas City, winning the game 35-10 in front of a stadium littered with
> empty seats. Instead of big names like The Who, Slash, The Black Eyed Peas
> or Madonna, the Grambling Marching Band teamed up with the University of
> Arizona Symphonic Marching Band to put on the halftime show.
>
> One thing the game did get was plenty of TV coverage
> .
> Since the NFL and AFL were separate leagues (they had begun to merge but
> wouldn’t become two conferences in the same league until 1970), the two
> leagues had separate TV contracts. CBS Held the NFL broadcast rights and
> NBC held the AFL rights. Due to that, both stations simulcast the game,
> shooting it out to a combined 51 million viewers.
>
> However, all of that coverage did not save it from being lost. Tapes of
> both the NBC and CBS broadcast were lost over the years. By the 2000s, the
> lack of a complete tape of the game had become widely known and, in 2005, 
> Sport
> Illustrated listed it as one of