Sports pictures within news

Something that's always intrigued me, you generally see footage taken straight from the relevant channels to show sports highlights on the news. How does this arrangement work? Are they able to play out anything as long they put the 'courtesy of...' Note on screen, or do they have to seek prior consent from the broadcasters?

Short Answer, basically YES! It's the same with clips from a TV Show as long as you put up who made it for review purposes. Charlie Brooker sort of it explains 'clearance' here.


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Short Answer, basically YES! It's the same with clips from a TV Show as long as you put up who made it for review purposes. Charlie Brooker sort of it explains 'clearance' here.
http://youtu.be/3bNK97nIsKs?t=13m58s

Sports pictures within news bulletins are generally governed by the Sports News Access Code (SNAC). Most of the main UK broadcasters are signatories to it, which allows them to show clips from sporting events for news purposes only. The code stipulates things like the maximum duration of clips, how long other broadcasters can show them for and the preferred wording of the on-screen credit etc.

There are quite strict rules regarding sports clips, the news programmes can't just show anything.

It's been a long time since I was responsible for such things so I can't remember the specifics. In the case of Premier League football for example there are 'News Access Rights' which allow a news programme to show a certain duration of highlights, after a certain time, for 24 hours. They have to be taken off air and credited to the broadcaster with a caption (even if there's a logo bug) and cannot be archived. They can only show clips from the match, so no build up and of course they can't show post match interviews from the broadcaster.

The rules for something like the Olympics are similar, but more restrictive. There time zones play a part, especially for international broadcasters, I remember the window for rights was better for London 2012 than it was for Beijing 2008 because it was further west.

What about when news channels show the minute silence before a match kicks off or players [not] shaking hands etc? I guess Sky News are allowed to show anything they want from Sky Sports.

As Sky News is FTA, I think the Premier League thought police might have something to say, if too much 'match action' is shown live ?

Sky Sports are the rights holders, not the Premier League - once they've sold the rights it's up to Sky how they recoup the cost. Although they wouldn't let Sky News or Sky Sports News show large portions live, they might allowed them to have less restrictive access for reports than the standard arrangements are.

Boxing seems to often be the exception to the standard fair use agreements - not sure if it's still the case but in the past news programmes have often only been able to use stills rather than any video action - often because the fight is over in seconds anyway so under standard rules they'd end up showing the same fight!

I think most news broadcasters would record this off-air and consider it 'news access'. I'm fairly certain that is what happened with the minute's silence held at the start of the Hearts v Celtic game this weekend, although I think on-screen credits did appear.

It's usually no more than 60 seconds of material that can be shown six times in the 24 hours after the sporting event was broadcast (although you're not allowed to show anything that was broadcast between 0000 and 0600 - at least until the rights-holder has re-broadcast it).

Haven't heard of that before. Talking of overnight not sport related but always amazed me how footage of the Oscars is freely available to anyone who wants it for their breakfast and news coverage, making the UK rights pretty much worthless I'd have thought.

Again, there are restrictions (which the Academy strictly enforces). I'm not a hundred per-cent sure - but I think it's something like only three minutes of material can be shown in the 24 hours after the Oscar broadcast finishes - although the number of 'hits' is more generous. The three minutes can be shown at least once every hour.