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pennyshahin_2

Hi i'm thinking about making place mats from football cards and try to sell them would i need the cards makers permission to do this?

wuckfit

It sounds like a nice simple idea, but if you're doing it commercially from copyrighted sources, then you could run into a number of issues. Not only from the card makers, but you'd need permission from the copyright holder of the photographs too. Ultimately, I suspect getting the correct licensing in place will probably be prohibitively costly. If somebody still has active exclusive rights to 'exploit' an image (technical term), then its unlikely you'd be granted a license for that. As for the footballers, that's probably yet another minefield which could be very expensive to acquire rights for using their likenesses. Then there's the football clubs themselves. each club will have trademarked logos.

pennyshahin_2

Thanks what about all the other people who sell football stuff though ebay shops( don't they have to have permission) if i bought posters and laminated them would that be breakingthe law?

pennyshahin_2

If i buy football posters on ebay and laminate them and then try to sell them as pace mats -is this breaking copyrgh laws?

Savvy_Sue

I've merged your two threads, although I'm not quite sure why you think the answer would be different for posters as opposed to cards.

ukbill69

pennyshahin wrote: »

If i buy football posters on ebay and laminate them and then try to sell them as pace mats -is this breaking copyrgh laws?

It is if the seller is doing the same thing and not getting permission or paying a fee to clubs.