Football Copyright

Droog79 · New Member Joined: 29 Jun 2009 Posts: 1

I am currently looking into a football related business-venture which will require me to use the names of numerous football clubs. I will not be using any of their images, fonts or logos. I will also be writing a disclaimer outlining the fact that we are not affiliated to any of the clubs.
Do you think there are any other copyright issues that could arise?
Thanks in advance

AndyJ · Regular Member Joined: 29 Jan 2010 Posts: 24

There would be no general objection to you using the names of clubs, players etc as these would not ordinarily be subject to copyright. The main problem would lie in using images which featured copyright material (such as club or league logos, or sponsor's trade marks) and by quoting extensively from literature produced by the clubs or others. As you say you do not intend to to do the former, there should not be a problem with copyright. If you do feel it necessary to quote from other sources which are copyright, make sure you clearly mark these passages as quotes and name the source, and you should be OK so long as you don't over do it.