Soccer’s Big Data Dilemma: Who Owns the Data Behind the Beautiful Game?
Behind the scenes of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, a match based in data is racking up points. It is estimated that the tournament's 104 matches will generate more than 90 petabytes of data, representing a staggering 45-fold increase over the volume produced during the 2022 games. So who owns all that data? The answer sits at the intersection of intellectual prop
