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"Bloggers suffered a surprising loss last week when the NCAA issued a new "NCAA Blogging Policy" limiting how often bloggers can update their blogs while attending championship college events, reports CNET News's "Beyond Binary" blogger Ina Fried. Each sport has a different set of rules for how often a blogger can post during a single game. For example, bloggers at football games can update three times per quarter and once at halftime. But in basketball, bloggers get five posts per half, once at halftime and twice per overtime period. Even sports like water polo and bowling are regulated, Fried reports.
The exact rules of the ban are posted on the NCAA's website. The new policy has already sparked intense backlash on the blogosphere, but traditional media has been slow to pick the story up.
The new policy comes just months after a Courier-Journal blogger was booted from a baseball game between the University of Louisville and Oklahoma State in June. Staff blogger Brian Bennett was approached by NCAA officials in the fifth inning and told that blogging "from an NCAA championship event is against NCAA policies [and] we're revoking the [press] credential and need to ask you to leave the stadium."
The issue of First Amendment rights came up in the Courier-Journal case in June when the paper's attorney, Jon L. Fleischaker, argued that the facts of a game are not subject to copyright law. It's not clear whether the First Amendment will come into play in relation to the new blogging policy.
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