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Originally Posted by twins_34
. . . and that's where the Japan league comes in as it violates copywrite laws since they don't have the license to use that Intellectual property.
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Whose copyright laws? Japan's or the United States'?
It's well established under U.S. copyright law that you cannot copyright facts. You can copyright specific arrangements and presentations of facts, but not the facts themselves. Player names and statistics are clearly facts. Team and league names are also facts, but they may also be trademarks. Trademarks are a separate matter.