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The Business of Football
I received an email recently from SpreadShirt (the crowd who power the Everything Ulster shop) warning their partners about the potential for copyright infringement issues arising out of the World Cup. Basically they sent a cease and disist communication to one Spreadshirt partner who, after being lucky enough to get a ticket to one of the matches, created himself a T-Shirt proclaiming
WORLD CUP 2006
Iran-Angola
I was there
and put it in his shop in case anyone else lucky enough to get tickets wanted one too (as it turned out, nobody actually bought one).
FIFA must have noticed this and responded with a Cease and Desist letter and a four-figure fine for using the phrase "World Cup 2006"! To add insult to injury, the other day on TV I saw an advert for an officially licenced World Cup music CD called Voices.
With artists like Westlife, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston, Barbra Streisand, Anastasia, Delta Goodrem, Dido and worse, I can't help but wonder who the f**k they're trying to appeal to with this crap!! 90% of the CDs contents bare absolutely no connection to football and yet they're prepared to cash in on the licensing fee while at the same time persecuting real fans trying to have a bit of fun! What is football coming too when money and lawyers are allowed to get in the way of the fans enjoying themselves? And what is the world coming to when FIFA can get away with cashing in on such sappy drivel?