• Reuters, Friday, March 2, 2012 3 AM

Yahoo’s contention that is does not have to pay compilers for publishing football fixtures list has been backed by the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg, which said copyright protection does not extend to the lists when there was little room for originality in compiling them.

Football DataCo, a company that oversees images and data for the English and Scottish Premier Leagues, had accused Yahoo UK, bookmaker Stan James and sports information company Enetpulse of infringing its rights by using match lists without authorisation.

However, Football DataCo said it planned to fight on and still saw scope for winning a copyright case in Britain based on the EU ruling.

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