SEC, Pac-12, Big Ten Won't License Trademarks in Future Video Games

[MarvinOida]

Well, by the looks of it, they're just gonna not have some logos/schools. But since EA has TeamBuilder, Create a Conference and School is now a must have if they want to make fans happy. But it would suck if some schools would drop out, especially the big schools. Maybe this will inspire EA to actually improve on the game since this is a near death blow. Lackluster is the word for 7th gen Sports Games by EA, maybe even overall for the genre since there's significantly less competition in each sport.

Quote: Originally Posted by HenryClay1844

I can't imagine that they would release a customizable game, as this opens them up to accusations (very similar to the O'Bannon case) of unauthorized use of copyrighted logos. It would be nice, but I think everyone is too scared of more lawsuits and more importantly more judgements in the plaintiffs favor.

It doesn't work like that if its user created. That's why you don't see suits for people creating players/things that aren't licensed in video games. I think as long as they don't mention any of the trademarks not licensed to them, they would be in the clear. But you never know about the random guy with a suit.


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[moose1234]

Can Someone explain me how they can just do this like that . Isn't there some sort of contract in place

[slick589]

Quote: Originally Posted by moose1234

Can Someone explain me how they can just do this like that . Isn't there some sort of contract in place

The easiest way for me to explain it to you is this:

There are 3 separate entities that make up the NCAA football game
1) The NCAA
2) individual Conferences
3)individual schools

Now the NCAA owns the rights to things like The NCAA logo and the BCS I believe, maybe even Bowl Games but I'm not sure.

The conferences own the rights to conference names, logos, and patches.

The schools own everything related to their school like logos, uniforms, stadiums, fight songs etc.

As it stands now the NCAA and 3 of the bigger market conferences have decided to pull their rights from the game. If this continues to snowball all it takes is one big time school to pull their rights and I believe almost all will follow, leaving us with a game that contains no NCAA, no real conferences and no real schools.

This is all in an attempt of those entities to distance themselves from the O'Bannon case that I believe EA is eventually going to lose.

[wiscowilz]

Quote: Originally Posted by moose1234

Can Someone explain me how they can just do this like that . Isn't there some sort of contract in place

Contract between EA and the conferences??

If there is I would bet it ran out with this game just like NCAAs contract did.

[ndfan1993]

Two things of note:

1) This will save me money each year and make it such that I won't want to grab the new console.

2) I know it wouldn't be as fun but could EA not just go the Ultimate team route, renegotiate with the conferences and even the NCAA but just use old rosters with non-active players and negotiate with them individually?

[cdawg44]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/confere...33--ncaaf.html

Big 12 looks to still be in according to Yahoo. The rest of the confrences are "evaluating" the situation

[BadAssHskr]

I'm surprised there has been no other news, no EA response. I thought i'd be coming in to work today and already have some reading to do.

[N51_rob]

Quote: Originally Posted by BadAssHskr

I'm surprised there has been no other news, no EA response. I thought i'd be coming in to work today and already have some reading to do.

Perhaps they are still reeling from the announcement, maybe this is just a negotiating tactic from those conferences to get more money? I don't know but there is no way this is a good thing for EA and the future of the NCAA franchise.