NCAA suing EA Sports and CLC:

Quote:The NCAA is suing EA Sports and the Collegiate Licensing Company, according to multiple reports.
The lawsuit was filed Nov. 4 in a Georgia state court. It followed a September settlement in which EA Sports and the Collegiate Licensing Company agreed to pay around $40 million to settle lawsuits brought by former players whose likenesses were used without compensation. That left the NCAA alone in facing the class-action lawsuits spearheaded by former UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon and former college quarterback Sam Keller.

The NCAA is seeking to block the settlement and have EA Sports be required to pay for future liability judgments, legal fees and costs, according to the reports.

The suit alleges the Collegiate Licensing Company did not "adequately supervise" EA Sports and that the NCAA was subsequently subjected to "potential liability in several lawsuits currently being litigated relating to EA's alleged use of NCAA student athletes' names, images, and likenesses in EA's NCAA-themed video games," according to The Wall Street Journal.

The suit also alleges the licensing company violated its business partnership with the NCAA by "self-dealing in settlement negotiations without the NCAA's knowledge, authorization or participation," per the Wall Street Journal report.

As for EA Sports, the suit alleges the video game company did not maintain sufficient liability insurance to cover "pending third-party claims, including for attorneys' fees that the NCAA has already incurred in defending against those claims," according to USA Today.

The NCAA also faults both EA Sports and the Collegiate Licensing Company for settling the lawsuits without notifying the collegiate governing body and for refusing to give the NCAA information pertaining to the settlement, USA Today reported.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/stor...ng-company

It is just sad when we cannot even have video games about football because of money.

(11-21-2013 01:44 PM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  It is just sad when we cannot even have video games about football because of money.

I agree with this sentiment.

Greed has killed what is arguably the best video game out there.

In the end the only losers are the fans that just liked to play football.

no doubt. It royally sucks that we'll never get a college football game on the next gen systems..

Or even college basketball. I can only imagine what that would be like on next gen.

Where is the hypocrisy here?

"The suit also alleges the licensing company violated its business partnership with the NCAA by "self-dealing in settlement negotiations without the NCAA's knowledge, authorization or participation," per the Wall Street Journal report."

(11-21-2013 01:48 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  

(11-21-2013 01:44 PM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  It is just sad when we cannot even have video games about football because of money.

I agree with this sentiment.

Greed has killed what is arguably the best video game out there.

In the end the only losers are the fans that just liked to play football.

And the kids who's mugs are not worth money but still got to be in the game..

http://www.ubbullrun.com/2013/9/26/47746...ball-games

Quote:Ok I don't believe for a second EA put out NCAA football as a "labor of love" but I do believe that it is so far in market share behind madden that the video game producer would toss it before it started paying out for using player likenesses.

For every RGIII who's image *MIGHT* have inspired someone to buy the game there are hundreds of Joe Licata's who's face had no real impact on EA's bottom line. Those players, the ones who get to play the games as themselves, or who families and friends played the game as their favorite team.

They are the losers here, not the RGIII's who will be just fine with the fame they have.

I am a bit pissed because it is one of the few console games I would buy every year, well I suppose its time to start playing Madden again.

Just make the damn game and give every player a free copy plus 50 bucks. Problem solved IMO

Sucks for everyone that we can't get college football games because of stupid rules that don't help anybody. But hey at least the athletes are still amateurs.

(11-21-2013 01:44 PM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  It is just sad when we cannot even have video games about football because of money.

The whole purpose of video games is Money.

Seems like the NCAA feels they got left holding the bag. What started as a lawsuit against EA then got the NCAA dragged into it. And then EA settled while the NCAA gets thrown to the wolves. I totally understand if they have yet to see the terms of the settlement and weren't party to the process.