NFL shuts down church's Super Bowl Bash, ratings to blame {Engadget HD}

Feb 2nd 2007 1:35PM "The accounts and descriptions of this broadcast are intended for the private, non-commercial use of our audience." Sound familiar?

The NFL holds the copyright on the broadcast. If they want to prevent you from making money off their copyrighted property (and their trademarked phrase "Super Bowl"), that's their right. If they want to impose restrictions on what they'll let you get away with if your use of the broadcast is public and/or commercial, that's their right. If they want to risk adverse publicity for the sake of collecting tiny amounts of licensing fees that most people evade anway, I can't understand why they'd make that business decision, but it's their right too.