Buckie football chiefs to fine YouTube schoolboy £5,000

Bruce · **Posted:** Thu Dec 17, 2009 5:08 pm

The heading is misleading (it should read the Highland League to fine YouTube schoolboy £5,000), but it is still a shocking story:

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BUCKIE Thistle may not enjoy the sophisticated multi-camera TV coverage afforded to more illustrious clubs. But for two years David Smith has stoically filmed his beloved Buckie and posted the footage on YouTube for the enjoyment of the elderly, housebound and loyal fans off-shore and abroad.

The ten-minute clips, complete with team credits, have earned a cult following on the internet, but the Highland League has now threatened the schoolboy with a £5,000 fine for breach of copyright. Despite the fact that Buckie FC games are not filmed by the Highland League and rarely attract more than 500 fans at home games, the league secretary was so annoyed by the footage that he tracked down the 16-year-old and has issued him with a red card.

The full story can be read in The Scotsman! I don't know much about copyright laws so its good that there's some comments from a specialist in intellectual property law at the end, which can be summed up as follows:

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The league's talking utter nonsense

Ken · **Posted:** Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:27 pm

How can an organisation work so hard to make itself look so utterly stupid and mean?

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