NFL: Twitter suspends, with NFL's notice, two accounts that illegally broadcast match highlights

The social network Twitter has suspended the accounts @Deadspin, a sports blog belonging to the US website Gawker.com, and @SBNationGIF, owned by the American group Vox Media, for the unauthorised, wide-scale broadcast of a dozen NFL match highlights, on 12/10/2015. Both accounts were broadcasting these highlights in Vine and GIF format, videos lasting just six seconds.

"We did not request that any Twitter account be suspended. We only sent routine notices as part of our copyright enforcement program requesting that Twitter disable links to more than a dozen pirated NFL game videos and highlights that violate the NFL's copyrights," said the NFL.

Both accounts also broadcast highlights of UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship), who had explicitly demanded the immediate closure of the two accounts. The @Deadspin account (887,000 followers) was restored in the evening of 12/10/2015, however the @SBNationGIF account remains closed.

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