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Written by Maury Brown
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008 18:48 |
 The claims are nearly identical to a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court: A sports league believes it has the right to charge a licensing fee for the use of player statistics and player names when such information is used in a for-profit fantasy sports product. The case that went before the U.S. Supreme Court was CBC Marketing v. MLB Players Association and MLB Advanced Media (see The Biz of Baseball for more details). The Supreme Court ruled in favor of CBC saying that stats are protected by the First Amendment. Now, the case involves an affiliate of the NFL Players Association and CBSSports.com. As reported by the Miami Herald: The lawsuit, filed by the National Football League Players Inc., comes nearly a week after CBS Interactive sued the National Football League Players Association, alleging the union was threatening legal action if CBS did not pay license fees for using player statistics. The union cannot ''continue to extract money from CBS Interactive for the use of publicly available football statistics,'' the company states in its suit. The action was filed in Minneapolis federal court.
More on the "Fantasy Stats" case with MLB can be found here: Interview - Rudy Telscher - Lead Counsel, CBC Marketing
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