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Originally Posted by KurtBevacqua
Just wondering if The Sporting News or Baseball Almanac or USA Today pay for the rights to publish box scores and other baseball stats.
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As indicates in the NBA v Motorola case, they don't have to. The only reason they'd be paying MLB is not for the right to publish, but for the data collected.
There is nothing stopping anyone from collecting the facts themselves and publishing them without paying anyone licencing fees. Facts are not protected by copyright.