a hornet's nest of rights fights, is what you'll get in to. Not to
mention that you won't be able to get access.
You might be able to pull it off at the HS level until you get to the
regional playoffs and then you'l find some serious problems with
either the region's hired photographer, or a contract between the
region and the schools to hire only one photographer.
Just recently a local newspaper was denied access to a district game
to shoot because the regional organization wanted exclusive rights to
all the images and all the proceeds from selling them. They're in
court now.
It will be a good day for the news industry when it abandons covering
sports and reconizes that sports is not news, it's entertainment.
Think of all the important news the paper could cover with that
section, if they stopped thinking of sports as news. They might
actually be able to do some investigative reporting. Wouldn't that
be amazing?
In my not very humble opinion.
Very few sports have not yet been invaded by the profit motive.
Getty and Corbis are breathing down everyones' necks, just watch the
Olympics next year.
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Emily L. Ferguson
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