references but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations . please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations . november 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message football dataco ltd type limited company industry association football media founded london uk 2001 2001 headquarters london uk area served worldwide services licensing of intellectual property owner premier league the football league website www.football dataco.com football dataco is a british company in the football industry that grants licences to third parties such as newspapers allowing them to reproduce certain intellectual property such as fixture lists and statistics owned by the uk s three professional football leagues the premier league the football league and the scottish professional football league . many of football dataco s activities are contracted out to the press association pa . thus pa sport handles applications for and distributes fixture lists and produces the actim statistics service on behalf of football dataco . football dataco is wholly owned by premier league and the football league . contents 1 fees 2 controversy 3 court case results 4 references 5 external links fees edit football dataco charges a standard fee for the reproduction of fixture lists which currently stands at 266 plus vat to print the fixtures of one english club . newspapers printing the fixtures of all clubs are be charged around 3 931 plus vat by dataco for a date ordered listing . the money accrued by football dataco for the rights to this data is distributed to league clubs on an egalitarian basis approximately 18 % to premier league clubs ; 56 % to football league clubs ; 25 % to scottish professional football league clubs . controversy edit the company has been racked by controversy in the uk media after a 2004 european court of justice ruling that the premier league and football league can not use the european database directive to demand payment from media and pools companies for the publication of fixture lists . football dataco refute the ruling arguing that a legal precedent was set in the uk back in 1959 when the football league won a landmark copyright victory against littlewoods claiming income from the pools company for their use of the fixtures list . staunch opponents of football dataco argue that the ruling is long out of date and needs to be brought more inline with the advances in information collection and delivery that we are seeing with the world wide web . small independently owned football fan sites have been badly hit by football dataco who even charge non profit making enterprises the standard fee for use of single club fixture data unless adopted by a club as a nominated fanzine in which case the charge is 1.00 plus vat . this has meant that many fanzines have been threatened with removal of the fixtures by football dataco . 1 the company has also challenged many not for profit websites over their use of football club badges on their websites . the licensing business outside of the uk is handled by fixtures marketing ltd 2 which has filed lawsuits against finnish oy veikkaus ab swedish ab svenska spel and greek organismos prognostikon agonon pododfairou ae for using fixture lists without a licence . 3 court case results edit on monday 12 november 2012 the long running claim brought by the english and scottish professional football leagues the leagues their licensing agent football dataco fdc and its sub contractor pa sport the claimants was brought to an end . the claimants told the court of appeal that following the european court of justice s decision cjeu judgment . 4 5 they accepted they did not have rights in the fixture lists enabling them to charge licence fees for use of their fixture lists some four years after the case had begun . at the hearing the court of appeal declared that neither database copyright nor sui generis database rights subsists in the eu in fixtures lists . ordered football dataco pa sport fdc s sub contractor and the football league limited to carry a message on their respective websites for a month clarifying the position in the following form following the decision of the court of justice of the european union dated 1 march 2012 in case c 604 10 football dataco ltd v yahoo uk ltd & others click here it has been determined that neither copyright nor sui generis database rights subsist in the eu in fixture lists for the english and scottish football leagues . ordered that the claimants pay the costs of the defendants namely yahoo stan james stan james abingdon and enetpulse . references edit conn david 21 december 2005 . fanzine fight for the right to print fixtures . london the guardian . retrieved 16 october 2008 . oconnor ashling 10 november 2004 . surprise ruling moves goalposts over fixtures . london times online . retrieved 16 october 2008 . legal protection for databases case report . out law.com . retrieved 16 october 2008 . case law of the court of justice march 12 ruling . bbc report . external links edit football dataco boost for papers in football fixtures row the guardian football rights row goes to extra time lockout fear over football rights bbc news retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title football dataco & oldid 656156435 categories football media in the united kingdommedia companies of the united kingdomhidden categories use dmy dates from march 2012articles lacking in text citations from november 2010all articles lacking in text citations navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 12 april 2015 at 18 41 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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