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Judge Denies Dismissal of Conspiracy Case, EA Must Defend Itself Against Athletes Stuck

Posted on May 19, 2012 at 12:45 PM.

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The $1 billion question in EA's minds right now is how to prove they aren't conspiring with the NCAA to deny student athletes/former student athletes their fair share of the video game prize pool.

Judge Claudia Wilken recently denied EA's request to be dismissed from the case, which means EA and the NCAA must prove they aren't conspirators to deny athletes money they are owed from their likenesses being used in sports video games.

If EA loses the NCAA athletes case, that's 25% of their yearly income that they'll be required to pay for a game that accounts for much less than that.

Could this mean the NCAA Football franchise's fate hangs in the balance of what the court decides?

Well only time will tell, as we've been talking about this case in some form for over two years now. Regardless, expect a lot of interesting disclosures to come out of this case and even more importantly, expect it to be a much bigger deal than just a video games license.

Do you think the athletes are right to want money for their likenesses being used in NCAA Football/Basketball games?

Comments

# 16 bigdoc85 @ May 22

eaterofworlds and sactown make some good points. I have been saying for the last few years that this issue is a significant reason why we're unlikely to see a college basketball game in the future. Who knows? At some point we could see the last NCAA Football game and every year a bunch of people band together to crank out an updated roster set so people can still play the game each year with current rosters.

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