I'm writing a blog on hockey news, analyzing things such as trade rumors, what players would fit on what teams, and what players are performing better than others. To do this, I want to use screenshots of statistics from Yahoo Sports. I would crop the image to get the picture of the player with their name and statistics of this season (not the whole page). The screenshots are related to what is discussed in my posts and it's a non-commercial blog. Does this fall under fair use? The country I am in has signed the Berne Convention. I would also provide links back to the webpage I took the screenshot from.
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Any unauthorized reproduction, publication, further distribution or public exhibition of the materials provided on the Yahoo Services, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited.The photos of players are probably licensed to Yahoo, so you might be violating other copyrights as well. "Fair use" is also primarily a U.S. legal doctrine. Would you get sued? Unlikely, however I'd suggest using lower resolution/thumbnail copies of the photos (like search engines do). Player stats are in the public domain...