"The exploitation of Sky's footage competes directly with what it paid for", he said. Related Content NZ Herald withdraws reporting team from Rio Olympics Rio Olympics - the day jobs of Team NZ Sky TV seeks Fairfax injunction over Rio Olympics video"You have a continuous mounting montage of highlights," he said. Before the Olympics even began, the use of video footage had proved a contentious issue for both Fairfax and NZME. "There's no point in attaching little messages about the outcome of events to the legs of a thousand pigeons and releasing them from the Fairfax building," he told told the judge. "Continuous posting [online] of video clips effectively produces an ongoing highlights package which is the antithesis of news reporting," Miles said.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 10, 2016 04:18 UTC