The situation in the UK, is that anything (and this includes fixtures, logos, statistics, even live twitter score updates) has to be licensed through a company

The situation in the UK, is that anything (and this includes fixtures, logos, statistics, even live twitter score updates) has to be licensed through a company called Football DataCo. The costs coming to ~$6000/season just for fixtures. You can't even use names that sound similar. For example calling Liverpool 'Merseyside Red'. [1] They enforce this strongly, outsourcing it to a company who only does this sort of thing. [1] http://www.epltalk.com/2010-11-premier-league-opening-day-fixtures-fiasco-21003 http://www.epltalk.com/2010-11-premier-league-opening-day-fi...