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by adventured 4150 days ago
Broadcast.com went public July 18, 1998. Yahoo purchased BCST in April 1999 (or announced it then, not sure when it closed).

I'm guessing even if it were a potential issue, enough time had passed from the IPO, and it's unlikely the same restrictions apply to an acquisition. Cuban likely held his shares free and clear at that point.

A $1.4 billion collar would have drawn a lot of attention from the SEC, doubly so given the publicity and scale of the Yahoo transaction.