St. Louis Post-Dispatch photographer Robert Cohen had to turn down two readers recently who wanted to buy copies of a great photograph he took of Rams quarterback Kurt Warner. The photo ran in 1999 and again when Warner retired recently. The photo can be used in the Post-Dispatch, which has the copyright on it, but the NFL doesn’t let the media sell the photo to readers or commercially without its permission. And guess what? The NFL has its own photo division, so it doesn’t let this sale of individual photos happen very often. It’s a shame that the NFL or the No Fun League has such a stranglehold on everything football-related. It almost seems it’s a battle of one copyright vs. another. And the NFL wins.
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