Fantasy Baseball ruling
- Posted by Rob (#1) on August 10, 2006 07:56 CEST
Neil has a good short summary of the Fantasy Baseball ruling:
If they're going to publish stats in newspapers across the country, then people get to use those stats, including the player names.
I recall this has been a debate in Europe as well, mostly about football games. I'm not sure whether FIFA won or not, but plenty of unlicensed fantasy games (or pools, or betting) do exist.
There might however be a limit to the extent of player name usage. Most games featuring all players tend to be made by big publishers who very well might have made a deal with FIFA. On the other hand, not having the full dataset of player names might simply be a matter of practicality for smaller players.
