The largest legal concerns for tv.ku.edu are showing footage and interviews. As far as interviews are concerned, the athletic department has requested that we obtain permission from the SID of whatever sport we want to cover be it revenue or non-revenue.
As for game footage, the athletic department will not allow us to record any major event that with be broadcasted in its entirety. We may however take clips from such footage to use for our sports programming, as long as the length of the footage does not exceed three minutes for basketball games. As far as football and other minor sports are concerned, we should be able to use an unlimited amount of footage.
Collecting footage for local high school sports will be surprisingly easy if we want to send somebody to the games to collect the footage. The athletic director of each school has the power to give us permission to cover any high school sporting event. The high schools have the capabilities to record and produce content, but they will only do so if it has been requested. High school athletes, who are usually minors, can legally consent to being interviewed.
In my opinion, having a message board as a part of our sports site is mandatory. In addition to being highly addictive, message boards are a great way to increase the number of visitors to our website. With the message board comes the obvious question of editing and censorship.
The message board should work a little something like the word on the street message board at the LJW. We could choose a question of the day or just let the people decide what issues they will butt heads about. We could choose a few comments from the lot of them to get people all hot and bothered and then give them the link to put in their two cents.
Upon choosing to enter the page with the rest of the comments, we should direct them to a page with the requisite, these views do not reflect the views of KUJH TV statement and give them a list of rules about posting before they can continue with a little agree button. We could let them look at the conversation, but they would have to sign up and give us an e-mail address (which we can legally use later for surveys and research) before they can post.
We cannot simply allow the users to post whatever comments they want. The page must be censored in some way. If any profane or obscene comments are posted to the site we should simply take them down and issue a warning to the user via the e-mail address they used to get a handle. We should not change the comments that the users post in any way.
The text briefly reviews some of the dangers of inserting deep links, or meaningful links, as we like to call them. I don't really see any problem with using deep links with the Kansan, KU sports sites or even the LJW for that matter, as long as it is extremely clear what site we are sending them to and that they are no longer on our site.
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