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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
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.
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Maybe this law? International copyright act of 1891. You know we have to kinda follow even world laws not just what the US falls under! Japan or whoever in Japan and Konami own the rights to the league, the players, and the use of the teams! THAT is why OOTP can not use it because they can not get the rights to use copywrite protected IP!