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<blockquote data-quote="RonJohn" data-source="post: 1009306" data-attributes="member: 2426"><p>I guess that is one way to look at it. However, I think you are missing what the GOR document says, and what that means. FSU assigned their rights to the copyrights of their sports broadcasts to the ACC. In copyright speak, they gave those rights to the ACC. The ACC now owns those rights outright. FSU does not own the rights at all. The negotiations with ESPN were for the benefit of the owner of the copyrights (the ACC), not the benefit of the individual schools who gave away all rights to their game broadcasts. In other words, the ACC negotiated with ESPN for the benefit of the ACC, not the benefit of FSU. The ACC is not acting as a "middle-man". The ACC is the entity that owns the broadcast rights to those sports events.</p><p></p><p>You can make an argument that FSU is a member of the ACC, so any contract that it engages in should be public information. Consider what would happen if the Florida AG were to join an organization of domestic abuse protection lawyers. Would that mean that all of the documents of that organization would become public, just because a Florida official was a member?</p><p></p><p>You can make the argument that you are making in court, and that is what the Florida AG is doing. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm not convinced that she will win that argument. It will be an interesting legal case. I also think there is a decent chance that ESPN, or the ACC will try to have his lawsuit moved to federal court.</p><p></p><p>In an earlier post you said that you aren't sure what FSU's play here is. I have been saying that for a long time. FSU is putting pressure on ESPN, and I don't believe that the Florida AG is acting solely on her own. Is ESPN going to be eager to have FSU in the SEC? Is ESPN going to be concerned that as soon as FSU isn't happy about something that they will attempt to make the SEC-ESPN contract public? Are Fox, NBC, and CBS going to be eager to have FSU in the Big10, for the same reasons? FSU is burning so many bridges that they might end up as an island.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RonJohn, post: 1009306, member: 2426"] I guess that is one way to look at it. However, I think you are missing what the GOR document says, and what that means. FSU assigned their rights to the copyrights of their sports broadcasts to the ACC. In copyright speak, they gave those rights to the ACC. The ACC now owns those rights outright. FSU does not own the rights at all. The negotiations with ESPN were for the benefit of the owner of the copyrights (the ACC), not the benefit of the individual schools who gave away all rights to their game broadcasts. In other words, the ACC negotiated with ESPN for the benefit of the ACC, not the benefit of FSU. The ACC is not acting as a "middle-man". The ACC is the entity that owns the broadcast rights to those sports events. You can make an argument that FSU is a member of the ACC, so any contract that it engages in should be public information. Consider what would happen if the Florida AG were to join an organization of domestic abuse protection lawyers. Would that mean that all of the documents of that organization would become public, just because a Florida official was a member? You can make the argument that you are making in court, and that is what the Florida AG is doing. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm not convinced that she will win that argument. It will be an interesting legal case. I also think there is a decent chance that ESPN, or the ACC will try to have his lawsuit moved to federal court. In an earlier post you said that you aren't sure what FSU's play here is. I have been saying that for a long time. FSU is putting pressure on ESPN, and I don't believe that the Florida AG is acting solely on her own. Is ESPN going to be eager to have FSU in the SEC? Is ESPN going to be concerned that as soon as FSU isn't happy about something that they will attempt to make the SEC-ESPN contract public? Are Fox, NBC, and CBS going to be eager to have FSU in the Big10, for the same reasons? FSU is burning so many bridges that they might end up as an island. [/QUOTE]
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