Rte and league of ireland

[stann]

A good few of them were just ripped straight from the extratime site.Pretty dangerous way of doing things in terms of mistakes / inaccuracies etc.

Wouldn't think that's what happened sb, partly as it's not too cool, especially for a national broadcaster, and partly as it would require someone to actively go and do it!
I'd say it's more likely that whoever sent those particular reports to extratime sent the same ones to RTE as well.

[scottish_bohs]

Wouldn't think that's what happened sb, partly as it's not too cool, especially for a national broadcaster, and partly as it would require someone to actively go and do it!
I'd say it's more likely that whoever sent those particular reports to extratime sent the same ones to RTE as well.

All extratime's reports come from their own reporters at the games. There was a minor error in one of their first division reports at the weekend, which RTE also carried.

[Schumi]

Are the first division clubs now helping out RTE by sending in their own reports? If so it looks like they are letting RTE off the hook but better than nothing I suppose.

It is letting them off the hook in one way but it's of more benefit to the clubs than it is to RTE. RTE probably don't really care one way or the other. I'm just concerned about what'll happen if Drogheda get relegated, imagine their website reports on RTE!

[stann]

All extratime's reports come from their own reporters at the games. There was a minor error in one of their first division reports at the weekend, which RTE also carried.

Not wanting to get into an argument with you SB, wasn't watching the site all the time, if you read ripped reports I can't argue with that.

But looking at the reports on the RTE and extratime websites now, there's 5 matches covered by both sites (Longford-Monaghan game is not on the RTE site). One of those I know for a fact is not the same as I sent in the RTE version. The other four don't look at all similar, certainly none of them are 'ripped straight from' the other.
Having just been made away of the error in question though, it certainly seems to be the case that at least one report was partly based on, ahem, 'liberated' information.

[BohDiddley]

A good few of them were just ripped straight from the extratime site.Pretty dangerous way of doing things in terms of mistakes / inaccuracies etc.

Also pretty unethical and illegal if true. I see that assertion has been challenged, but if RTE are doing this without permission then the copyright owner (for second publication), i.e. extratime or the writer, should politely send them an invoice.