Fixture List, Licensing?

[Bruce Eats Walkers! 0]

http://carrowroad.net/cnews/modules/news/F

Just reading this article, seems that you have to have a license to display fixture lists on a website or you can be fined! Personally I think this is ridiculous, did anyone else know about this? 

[Bruce Eats Walkers! 0]

Sorry, try this:

http://carrowroad.net/cnews/modules/news/

[Pete Raven 276]

Yes, has always been the case, and is for individual sites rather than a company which is why you''ll only ever find the fixtures on the PinkUn site, and not EDP24 and EN24 as well.

[chichcanary 0]

Tis true

There was an article about it in the current edition of When Saturday Comes

It''s mentioned at the start of this article from their web site (although it''s a different article)

http://www.wsc.co.uk/content/view/3439/38/

[ACE 0]

Its a load of corking nonsense that people cannot display the fixture list - but of course it gives the FA hundreds of inbound links from an sites to give them traffic.My advice:You can use this clause from their offical letter (I just found online) to justify it as long as it is within an "editorial context":"Without nominated fanzine status or a license there is no provision for any

fixture to appear in advance of the match being played. However, if there is

an editorial preview of the next upcoming match in which the fixture is

mentioned then this is unlikely to be objected to provided this is done in a

clearly editorial form. Mentioning more than one fixture would not be

accepted."ORwrite to NCFC and ask for "nominated fanzine" status - if they aughotise it you can get that agreed with the FA for £1.

ORSimply iframe the fixture list from the BBC - just make clear that it is content on the BBC site and is being displayed in an iframe for convenience and is in no way intended to be seen as your own content.  It would be a brave company that tried to take you to court over an iframe where the content was acknowledged as being externally supplied.