Actually, this has happened: a sports stats company (STATS, Inc) created a service to send live basketball scores to mobile devices, and the NBA sued based on copyright of the scores. Initially the court sided with the NBA, but it was overturned on appeals.
http://legal.web.aol.com/decisions/dldecen/nba.html
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Actually, this has happened: a sports stats company (STATS, Inc) created a service to send live basketball scores to mobile devices, and the NBA sued based on copyright of the scores. Initially the court sided with the NBA, but it was overturned on appeals. http://legal.web.aol.com/decisions/dldecen/nba.html
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