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Live Sports Virtual Reality Broadcasts: Copyright And Other Protections, Marie Hopkins
Live Sports Virtual Reality Broadcasts: Copyright And Other Protections, Marie Hopkins
Duke Law & Technology Review
As virtual reality rapidly progresses, broadcasts are able to increasingly mimic the experience of actually attending a game. As the technology advances and the viewer can freely move about the game and virtual reality can simulate the in-stadium attendance, the virtual reality broadcast nears the point where the broadcast is indistinguishable from the underlying game. Thus, novel copyright protection issues arise regarding the ability to protect the experience through copyright. Although normal broadcasts may be copyrighted, virtual reality broadcasts of live sports could lack protection under the Copyright Act because the elements of originality, authorship, and fixation are harder to …