Rules online

[Ia-Ref]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

I doubt that very much. And the fact that it's now been removed would pretty much prove that point.

I was the moderator on the NFHS discussion forum for several years. One thing I was told was they do not allow their rules publications to be published online by ANYONE, even state or local associations. In fact, this is the last year the NFHS will even publish pdf rule publications on their own website because of other sites downloading the publications and posting on their own site.

To my knowledge, every instance of any rule publication that has ever published online has been taken down when it came to the attention of the NFHS.

That's intersting because when the new NFHS/Arbiter started up, I was able to get the Rules & Casebook online at their site.
By the traffic on the new site, I would have to say that at least for now the change has been a "bust". Especially because some of the old discussions will never be seen again.

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by Ia-Ref

That's intersting because when the new NFHS/Arbiter started up, I was able to get the Rules & Casebook online at their site.

As I've already stated:

I also have access to the pdf files through the NFHS Arbiter site.

This is the last year they will release them in pdf form.

Originally Posted by jchamp

Seriously, why not just release the friggin' pdf's?

Feel free to email Mike Meenan at [email protected] and ask him.

[HLin NC]

I just find it unfortunate that NFHS finds it necessary to obfuscate the game by making the rules more difficult to obtain.

If it is their organization's property, why should they allow every start-up youth league in America to copy off their rules for free and then addend at will?

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by HLin NC

If it is their organization's property, why should they allow every start-up youth league in America to copy off their rules for free and then addend at will?

Because that's how Fed got theirs!

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

Because that's how Fed got theirs!

Microsoft swiped an OS and then expanded on it and now claims it as theirs!

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

Because that's how Fed got theirs!

No matter how they got it, like it or not, they have a copyright granted by the US Government and they can legally protect it. I'm quite sure the US Copyright Office and the lawyers for the NFHS are more educated on this matter than you are.

But if you feel that strongly, post them on your web server, send the NFHS the web address, hire your lawyer and let's see who wins!

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

No matter how they got it, like it or not, they have a copyright granted by the US Government and they can legally protect it. I'm quite sure the US Copyright Office and the lawyers for the NFHS are more educated on this matter than you are.

But if you feel that strongly, post them on your web server, send the NFHS the web address, hire your lawyer and let's see who wins!

What makes you think they registered? They just put a copyright notice on, which anyone is entitled to do. But that doesn't establish an actual copyright.

[Altor]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

What makes you think they registered? They just put a copyright notice on, which anyone is entitled to do. But that doesn't establish an actual copyright.

Uh, actually, yes it does.