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NWT College Athletes and EA Sports

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This could get interesting:

"According to the AP, Judge Jay Bybee of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that video game-maker Electronic Arts can’t invoke the First Amendment in defending its “NCAA Football” franchise against a 2009 suit filed by former Arizona State and Nebraska quarterback Sam Keller. EA claims that its games were “works of art deserving of freedom of expression” and “newsgathering product that restates statistical, biographical and other publicly available information.”

"So Keller’s class action suit (which makes it possible to include and represent a lot of former and current student athletes like Keller) has been combined with O’Bannon’s against the NCAA, EA and the Collegiate Licensing Company."

“If Wilken certifies a class that includes current and former players, the focus of the case would shift from the use of former players’ likenesses in video games and videos to the lucrative media rights deals between television networks, video game companies and the NCAA, conferences and schools. Potential damages could increase dramatically and the NCAA would be forced to defend its concept of amateurism in court.”

Read more: http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/2013/08/ea-sports-college-athletes-image#ixzz2aqLrWoAo

Read more: http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/2013/08/ea-sports-college-athletes-image#ixzz2aqL6VueV

Read more: http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/2013/08/ea-sports-college-athletes-image#ixzz2aqKte1f2
 
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Settlements reached today
https://games.yahoo.com/news/ncaa-reaches-20m-settlement-video-game-claims-155936449--spt.html

low and behold, there is $$ for the players after all...

More than 100,000 athletes could have access to the money, though NCAA officials have already said they will not punish any current players who might receive part of the money
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It was unclear how much each player will get from a settlement that Berman said would mark the first time college athletes will be compensated for their on-the-field performance. He estimated each player could receive from $400 to "a couple of thousand dollars."
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Saw something that said EA said they wanted to pay players but the NCAA wouldn't let them. Looks like the players will get paid after all.
 
Hold them to the same admissions standards as regular students then pay them. Some dolt with an 800 on the SAT at a place like Wake shouldn't get to double dip and get paid.
 
Caturdayredux said:
Hold them to the same admissions standards as regular students then pay them. Some dolt with an 800 on the SAT at a place like Wake shouldn't get to double dip and get paid.
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Any halfway decent school would then have to choose to:

A: lower general admissions standards across the board

or

B: stop competing in Division 1 college athletics.
 
Yeah I think its done. EA would have to negotiate deals with the schools and conferences individually. Not going to happen.
 
"I think they're going to be pleased that they were the catalyst to being the first (college) athletes to be paid for their performance for the first time in history," Steve Berman, an attorney for the plaintiffs, told The Associated Press shortly after the deal was announced.
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The NCAA said current players who receive part of the settlement won't be at risk of punishment under rules that generally bar compensation for their athletic skills.

"In no event do we consider this settlement pay for athletics performance," Remy said.
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haha
 
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