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By Doreen Carvajal
April 2, 2007
This September, during the Rugby World Cup, there will be new restrictions put on the use of photographs, stats, and information about the games that is put online. The article says that, "the rugby board is limiting the number of game photos that can be published in online news sites during competition.
Some of the photographs have pictures or phrases of the teams sponsors, and this is the believed reason as to why they are trying to limit the number of photographs. However, the International Rugby Board said it has to do with their own online site, that gives information and stats about each game and provides pictures. They continued to talk about how other online sites are taking away from their own site.
In addition, the Pan American Games just banned their participating athletes from blogging.
With all of this in mind, I don't believe it's fair for the board to ban the use of game information and pictures for online sites. If the press is allowed to attend the games and take pictures they should be allowed to post and update their site using the information. Also, I don't understand why the Pan American Games would ban their athletes from blogging. One athlete commented on the issue saying, "blogging in general is a cathartic outlet for competitors to release pent-up thoughts and feelings."
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