Ex-QB sues NCAA, EA Sports over use of athletes' likenesses
Source: USA Today Posted By: Billy 5460 days ago
Former Arizona State and Nebraska quarterback Sam Keller is suing the NCAA and its video-game partner, EA Sports, claiming they've gone too far in using the likenesses of college players who are prohibited from sharing in the games' profits.
The class-action antitrust suit, filed this week in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, claims the games make illegal use of football and basketball players' names — through the download of team rosters — and unidentified but scarcely hidden likenesses and....