What's up with NASCAR's Crash Footage Copyright Scandal?
Full disclosure: we’re not huge NASCAR fans, but we were intrigued by the little PR dustup regarding the most interesting thing to happen to the sport in some time: this pre-Daytona 500 weekend crash, which injured 30 or more bystanders (amazingly, the drivers all walked away).
That’s the league’s official video of the wreck–and it’s apparently the only footage anyone can share without landing in a weird legal limbo.
NASCAR claims that it “owns the rights to all images, sounds and data” from every race–and when some attendees posted clips of the crash on YouTube, the league quickly ordered them removed.
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