FIFA comes gunning for World Cup Blog. Again.

April 22nd, 2008 | by: admin | View Comments

In a move that’s sooooo 2006, FIFA has come out of its cave to threaten the villagers who contribute to it being the well-fed monster that it is. Two years ago almost to the day, World Cup Blog received a cease & desist notice regarding its use in its site logo of the part of copyrighted WM 2006 logo for the World Cup in Germany.

Today, WCB received a very similar letter, though worded in a much friendlier way. You can read it in all it’s glory right here. For those that don’t have the patience to wade through the long-winded version, here’s the summary (emphasis is mine):

You may not be aware that only people who have paid us extremely large amounts of money are allowed to use the dodgy logo we have created for the world’s greatest tournament (you know, the one that looks like it was drawn by a 5 year old), and if you steal said logo you jeopardize our ability to fund children’s soccer programs in poor parts of the world (so they can grow up to be French internationals – did you know that FIFA was founded by a Frenchman?). So you see, it’s for the kids that we must send a team of lawyers after your sorry arse.

So, as you can see we’ve changed our logo from this to what you see above.