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EA Sports Lawsuit with former Nebraska QB Sam Keller

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Ex-NCAA Quarterback Sues Electronic Arts Over Games

Ex-NCAA Quarterback Sues Electronic Arts Over Games (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

May 6 (Bloomberg) -- Electronic Arts Inc. and the National Collegiate Athletic Association were sued by a former college football player who claims athletes? images are used in video games without their permission and in violation of NCAA rules.

Electronic Arts, the second-largest video-game publisher, circumvents the rules by allowing customers to upload player names directly into games and creating images that closely resemble student athletes to increase sales and NCCA royalties, according to the complaint filed by Sam Keller, a former quarterback for Arizona State University.

The practice is sanctioned by the NCAA and a licensing company for the association, Keller said in his complaint filed yesterday in federal court in Oakland, California. Keller seeks to represent all NCCA football and basketball players featured in Electronic Arts? NCAA video games.

?Electronic Arts is not permitted to use player names and likeness,? Keller said. Yet the company ?with the knowledge, participation and approval of the NCAA and Collegiate Licensing Co. extensively utilizes actual player names and likeness.?

NCAA rules prohibits the commercial licensing of current NCAA athletes? names, pictures or likeness, the lawsuit says. Electronic Arts markets NCAA Basketball, NCAA Football and NCAA March Madness games. It sold 2.5 million NCAA Football games last year, said Robert Carey, an attorney for Keller.

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seriously?

broke disgruntled former college player looking for a pay day :confused:
 
The NCAA has allowed EA Sports to create this game. The players are every bit based off the real players, and everybody knows it. The players can't license themselves in this manner but the NCAA can and profit on it?

Given the crap that finds its way into our courtrooms I have no problem with this one.
 
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Sam Keller was on my fantasy list, and didn't do shit for me.

Now he's trying to take away my favorite video game.

He couldn't cut it at Arizona State, sucked ass at Nebraska, and didn't do shit in the NFL.

He is worth fucking nothing.
 
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His girlfriend is hot as hell. You can google him and his girlfriend and I'm sure you can find some pictures.

Dude smoked too much weed and was never serious about football. That's why the ASU football players basically told the coach to bench his ass and that's when he got butt hurt and transferred to Nebraska.

Now he's a bartender up in Scottsdale.
 
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reagdog;1462849; said:
His girlfriend is hot as hell. You can google him and his girlfriend and I'm sure you can find some pictures.

Dude smoked too much weed and was never serious about football. That's why the ASU football players basically told the coach to bench his ass and that's when he got butt hurt and transferred to Nebraska.

Now he's a bartender up in Scottsdale.
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BP rule: Do not talk about hot chick without posting pictures. Fucking jerk.

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Disgruntled

buckeyemania11;1462684; said:
Ex-NCAA Quarterback Sues Electronic Arts Over Games (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

seriously?

broke disgruntled former college player looking for a pay day :confused:
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You know, I invented Pac-Man a long time ago and they stole it from me and then the banks made me pay my loans and on time and my wife spends and the kids spend and then the TV broke and then my contract was non-renewed and then the bailout of which I got none and then I wrecked my car and then I have to pay for a vacation to Disney and then and then and then.......who the heck do I sue?
 
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But for the NCAA and the American college football system, Sam Keller would have been playing in some minor league football system (which would exist if college football didn't), with shitty attendance like any other minor league system, and would never even make it in a video game nor be able to argue value of his image if he did.

The question of whether you can file a lawsuit is much different than whether you should. Go fuck yourself Sam Keller.
 
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I think this guy's case has merit as well.

While his beef is with his image being used on a video game, and the enormous profits that he's not sharing in, I fear that this may go deeper than that. I've become more and more concerned with the whole 'exploitation of amateur athletes' angle of college athletics as of late. And it's gotten worse, what with the BCS and huge television contracts that the conferences are getting. Lots of people are making [censored] loads of cash of an amateur sport, and all the athletes are getting is a free education. I don't think the eventual payday that the best of the best will recieve at the next level is much of an argument to the contrary either.

I think as the $$ keeps going up on broadcast rights, bowl revenue, apparel contracts etc, then the 'amateur' foundations of NCAA athletics gets shakier and shakier.
 
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FCollinsBuckeye;1462958; said:
...and all the athletes are getting is a free education. I don't think the eventual payday that the best of the best will recieve at the next level is much of an argument to the contrary either.

I think as the $$ keeps going up on broadcast rights, bowl revenue, apparel contracts etc, then the 'amateur' foundations of NCAA athletics gets shakier and shakier.
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I consider the free education pretty enticing. At $20,000/yr (give or take) that works out to be as much or more than what most college kids make working and going to school. I understand your obscene money being made by football and basketball, and may eventually agree with you. Where I keep getting caught up is how do you justify paying only football and basketball players and not the non-revenue generating sports. How do you compensate football and basketball players at schools where the programs dont make money?

I think I will still end up falling on the side of the current system in the end.

Sam Keller, you better stop messing around with the video games.
 
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