The blogosphere has several posts about an incident last weekend where a reporter was ejected from a baseball game because he was live-blogging the game. While there is no intellectual property protection for facts (eg the score of a game, the fact that a player just hit a home run), the venue owners do have some control over what one does when one is in their venue by virtue of contract (ie the ticket or journalist conditions.)

Consider this. If the reporter (or any individual for that matter) was watching a live TV broadcast of the game from anywhere other than the stadium, and live-blogging while watching it – I can’t imagine how they could be stopped. So query what is really accomplished by the blogging ban.

Read a Techdirt post

Read a CNet article

Read a Real Lawyers Have Blogs post that sets out the position of the 2 sides