NFHS Pubs in PDF Online
 

I just noticed that NFHS has now posted rulebooks and casebooks online on their website.

It appears as if it's the 2007-2008 books, and they were put there in PDF Format approximately the first week of March -- a little late for many sports. (I only checked Basketball and Football.)

I hope they do this for next year's publications PRIOR to the season. Would love to be able to keep them all on my Motorola Q.

got a link???



thx

All I could find was this:

http://www.nfhs.org/web/2006/08/basketball.aspx

This should get you there:

http://www.nfhs.org/custom/resourcel...ault.aspx?id=3

You do have to be a member, but if your state is like mine, once you're a certified official, you're automatically enrolled as a member with NFHS.

Access Denied. You must be logged in and be a member of an NFHS Professional Association or state staff member.

:(

Hmmmmm. I'm not a state staff memeber, nor do I believe that I am a memeber of an NFHS Professional Association, unless our state governing body is considered such.

I think they should put their rulebooks on line in Word format so I can change the rules I think need changing in the version of the books I take to games. That way I can show a coach that it's actually in the rulebook that he has to coach from the parking lot. :)

You can do it also from the PDF, it's only slightly more difficult. :)

Ciao

And you can completely eliminate OT! ;)

OT? What is that? ;)

Off Topic? :confused:

Has anyone else had any success in trying to access these files online?

Yes. But as part of my state association membership I also receive NFHS association membership. That allows me to log in and get those files.

Is it in conflict to post those files online elsewhere?

Just asking...

I can access them; but I am a member. Once you have accessed the PDFs you can save them. What you do with them after that would be at your discretion. Seems sharing them would be no different than a buddy giving you his last years books.

I am waiting to see what they do with the current rules. Previously you could only access them through member content online with no download option. But you could copy and paste.......

I believe that those files are copyrighted by the NFHS and it would be illegal to share them with other parties.

See the first page of your FED rule and case books for the language. The statement says <i>"Republication of all or any portion of this rules/case book on the Internet is expressly prohibited"</i>.

Mark doesn't need a rule change for that. :)

So then the Fed should come after many members here... :p

We're fine, we'll just say it all came from Reno.

Janet Reno??? :confused:

Sure. :)

Or Angie Las Vegas.

I just picked a city in Nevada, since our resident Nevadan seems to have the rules on standby.

Sharing a rule or part of a rule clearly falls under fair use -- I don't think there is any problem with that.

However, please do not email copies of PDF books to your friends and co-officials who are not NFHS members. The NFHS makes most of its money from the sale of books and memberships -- and memberships are only like $10-15 if I remember correctly, so just buy one!

I'd bet that sharing an entire rule (if that is what you really meant....i.e. Rule 4) would be beyond the threshold of fair use. For some rules, that'd be 20% of the entire book.

I'd think that a few sections of a rule would be a reasonable fair use limit...and is in line with what normally gets posted here.

If I were a betting man, I bet the NFHS is fully aware of the nature of the posts here and has no issue with the portion of the rules that are posted here.

LOL - yeah, I forgot that there are only 10 rules! OK... sharing a sub-section, of a section, of a paragraph, is ok :)