Quote Originally Posted by gschwendt View Post
Wow... that's gotten quite a bit bigger than I ever expected. I can see the stretch of the argument both ways, though EA is stretching it abit far saying that would start limiting/preventing movies like Forrest Gump from developing the way they did. Will definitely be interesting to see how all of this develops. IMO the whole matter needs to come down to including players' likeness into their scholarship contract somehow.
I'm not surprised this case has garnered the attention it has. It has SIGNIFICANT legal ramifications and it involves "celebrity" (or at least former celebs in athletes that didn't pan out).

This is how liberals/progressives (and most importantly attorneys) want you to think. EA (big bad company) is lieing about the possible ramifcations of Plaintiffs' argument/case. There is NOTHING different (legally speaking) from what EA currently does and some movie maker or an author does when writing/filming a documentary/biography without the subject's express permission. If Keller et al. are successful in their suit it literally can change a ton of industries and lead to a ton of new litigation (which is really what Keller's whores/attorneys want - a new type of case to bring in "billions"). I mean seriously think of the shere number of all of the athletes/people that have ever been "portrayed" in a video game w/o their permission.

In NCAA Football alone its 8,400 potential plaintiffs/clients every year. FYI - that is over FOUR TIMES as many plaintiffs/clients that are generated from mesothelioma. I can guarantee you every single one of you has seen 1000s of plaintiffs' law firm commercials re: mesothelioma. This has 4 times the potential "rain making" as that and lawyers will be running around the country trying to find each and every has been to sue EA/2K for using their "likeness" w/o their permission.

I've said this from Day 1. IF EA cannot prevail on appeal (which given the area of the country they are in is unlikely w/o going to the Supreme Court) they should pay Keller and the rest of the losers and then have every NCAA athlete sign a waiver. If you don't sign you are not in the game. If you do sign your name/#/height/weight/etc... will be in the game. I'd imagine 90% of the athletes would happily sign and never think twice about the "injury" they are "suffering" from having their "likeness" portrayed in a video game.