MLB Refuses To Give Permission To Guy To Describe Game

Villarreal contacted MLB to request "express written consent" to provide an "account" of the game he had watched to a friend. To its credit, MLB responded and asked him to call someone in its business development department... who (perhaps reasonably) thought it was a joke and did not provide the written consent (and stopped responding to calls and emails).

Copyright holders are pretty regularly claiming significantly more rights than they actually hold over content, and many people simply assume that they can do this.