NCAA Football Players Could Receive up to $20,000 in Likenesses Settlement

[JHamilton9]

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The real winner may be the FCS/I-AA players that were in earlier versions of the game. EA Sports didn't bother changing all the I-AA rosters with each version, so some teams weren't updated for 4+ years.

It will be interesting to see if those particular players will receive the maximum $20,000 for appearing in all the versions or just $5,000 for just appearing "once."

[noplace]

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Does this include the Bill Walsh series?

[kehlis]

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Here is a what if solution that maybe anybody with a legal background could help: What if the Judge sides with the NCAA and the O'Bannon team loses the case? The likelihood of that happening looks slim but it could happen. Wouldn't that set a precedent for future cases? So student athletes in the future couldn't be able to sue on the rights of likeness because of how this turned out and the ruling? And if that is the case, wouldn't the EA Sports team be able to go back to making the game like it was before but with less obvious players/numbers on the team (ie, randomized rosters)? Just a thought and not sure how that would hold up legally.

Either way there will be an NCAA Football game again. The EA Exec said during the trial they were making $80 mil a year off of NCAA Football alone. EA said it wants to continue to make the Football series, they just need to wait until this is straightened out. Whether the NCAA wins or O'Bannon wins, there will be a NCAA Football game again. NCAA Basketball or Baseball is unlikely, but possible.

Guys, as the story indicate this was the settlement, it is not going in front of a judge and is done.



As for the future of NCAA games there is no lock there will be a game in the future. If you clicked on the top link in the story it shows you that EA also had a very large settlement with the CLC which is the biggest problem.

As was mentioned previously in the thread, some teams have already dropped out (or threatened to) of the CLC so a future game would be like back in the Bill Walsh days where you were playing games like Tallahassee vs. South Bend.

Given the success of Arena football I don't think there is much of a market for a game like that nowadays.


We can hope but I'm not as optimistic as some.

[supermanemblem]

I'm sorry, but I don't see how this is even going to trial. The courts have ruled that fantasy leagues can use actual pro player names and stats without compensation, so I don't see why EA has to pay when most of the player info was inaccurate. The picture of the player was generic, and again, was sometimes way off. Where the kid was from wasn't always on point. This case should have been thrown out the minute it was filed. Hell, maybe I should launch a suit and claim a fan in a game was infringing on my likeness. There is a Black guy in the last few years of MLB that my friends say look like me.

[Playmakers]

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You guys are looking at this wrong. Sure, we don't have a game this year or probably next year, but once the NCAA allows the Athletes to receive compensation, imagine how realistic the game will be. Real players, likeness, headshots, ect. These athletes should get paid, O'Bannon won't earn much from this trial, but he will help Athletes get paid in the future and allow a much more realistic video game for us to enjoy.

There are 126 teams which equals roughly 8820 players...

I don't think that would lead to a more realistic game because I doubt EA would take the time to get all those players accurate.

That would be headshots or ratings....

Hopefully this leads to another NCAA game soon but i don't think it will change the way EA has been ratings players.

[kehlis]

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I'm sorry, but I don't see how this is even going to trial.

Seriously, are you guys reading this at all?

The story makes it clear its been settled therefore not going to trial.

In the post before yours, I mentioned it again.

[mestevo]

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the guys who rebuild rosters to have actual players on them should get $20,000 for their efforts, always appreciated!

I know this is in jest, but if anything that'd open them up to more legal risk than they are already creating player likenesses. Profiting off of players and not paying them is why this lawsuit exists, after all.

You guys are looking at this wrong. Sure, we don't have a game this year or probably next year, but once the NCAA allows the Athletes to receive compensation, imagine how realistic the game will be. Real players, likeness, headshots, ect. These athletes should get paid, O'Bannon won't earn much from this trial, but he will help Athletes get paid in the future and allow a much more realistic video game for us to enjoy.

There is so much that has to be figured out, a way to license the likeness of all the players similar to the players union isn't going to pop up overnight, and even if it did that doesn't mean it will be economical to even purchase those rights for use in a video game - certainly won't be at anything close to the $ per player that's being talked about.

[Cusefan]

NCAA Football Players Could Receive up to $20,000 in Likenesses Settlement

My company hired a D1 football player for summer help and talking about this with him has been pretty fascinating. He pretty much said that if he just got the game for free that would have been fine with him. It's just crazy how it works, he got a $2000 laptop for playing in a bowl game but couldn't get this game for free.

[Sundown2600]

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and the lawyers get $,$$$,$$$,$$$ lol