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2 Jul 10:59 am
... lawsuit claiming $5 million in damages has been filed by a San Francisco, California resident against Square Enix Inc. ("Square Enix"). The suit was filed on June 18, 2009 in
a California District Court and alleges, inter alia, that Square Enix engaged in false advertising and unfair business practices in relation to the online game Final Fantasy XI
(the "Allegations"). The Allegations primarily concern: monthly fees; interest charges on the late payment of fees; user restrictions and ...
3 Jun 8:02 am
... -01272-PJS-FLN, Filed June 1, 2009 Continuing the trend of fantasy sports litigation, Yahoo! Inc., has filed a lawsuit seeking declaratory judgment against the
defendants National ... copyright law preempts the trademark right or right of publicity by dedicating information used in a fantasy sports games business to the public. This
suit seems almost identical to CBS Interactive mentioned above, as well as C.B.C. Distribution and Marketing Inc. v. Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P., 505 F.3d ...
9 Nov, 2007 10:42 am
... 2005, there were more than 12.6 million Americans competing in fantasy sports leagues, spending nearly $500 per player.[4] The rapid rise ... Court of New Jersey. In Humphrey
v. Viacom, Inc., a Colorado attorney sued the proprietors of three pay-to-play fantasy sports sites, invoking several state qui ... gambling laws - morality. By citing the
aforementioned figures, it is apparent that the plaintiff sought to portray fantasy sports sponsors in the same light as casinos, which are more than mere neutral ...
31 Mar, 2008 10:41 pm
... CBC Distribution and Marketing Inc. ("CBC") have been entangled in a legal dispute over whether MLB players' names may be used in fantasy baseball leagues.[3] ...
players' names and statistics and may withhold such, likely causing fantasy baseball to be much less appealing to fans.[5] II. Background On August 8, ... publicity rights cases
in the arena of sports law may be decided. As previously mentioned, fantasy sports leagues are growing in popularity and profitability, this factor could also induce ...
4 Mar, 2008 9:30 am
... from a change in MLBPA policy regarding the licensing of player names to fantasy sports businesses. The district-court plaintiff, C.B.C. Distribution and Marketing,
Inc. ("CBC"), for over ten years had licensed directly from the MLBPA major ... was indeed infringing on major league baseball players' publicity rights, CBC's "first amendment
rights in offering its fantasy baseball products supersedes the players' rights of publicity." The Eighth Circuit based its ruling on three factors: (1) fantasy ...
27 Jul, 2007 9:21 am
... Judge Dennis M. Cavanaugh ruled that payments for entry fees to participate in ESPN's premium fantasy sports league are not wagers or bets, and thus does not constitute
illegal gambling. ... unlawful gambling. Cavanaugh noted that "the element of risk necessary to constitute betting or wagering is missing." It is estimated by the Fantasy Sports
Trade Association that 16 million adults in the U.S., from the ages 18 to 55, play fantasy sports. Humphrey v. Viacom Inc. et al., No. 06-2768 WL 1797648 (D. ...
9 Jun, 2008 6:34 pm
... v. C.B.C. Distribution and Marketing, Inc (2007) 505 F.3d 818.1, the Fantasy Sports case. To backtrack a bit; for those who are unfamiliar, ... kept track of the
statistics manually, which as you might guess was labour intensive. Fantasy sports took off when personal computers became affordable and with the advent of the internet, ...
Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association, tried to take control of Fantasy Sports asserting intellectual property rights over player names and statistics ...
16 Oct, 2007 9:42 am
"[W]e hold that CBC's first amendment rights in offering its fantasy baseball products supersede the players' rights of publicity": The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth
Circuit today issued its ruling in C.B.C. Distribution and Marketing, Inc. v. Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P. Today's majority opinion begins: C ... district court
granted summary judgment to CBC, see C.B.C. Distrib. and Mktg., Inc. v. Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P., 443 F. Supp. 2d ...
8 Sep, 2008 1:17 pm
... CBC v. MLB case over use of baseball players' names and statistics in fantasy football leagues, CBS Interactive sued the NFL Players' Association over the rights to ...
charge licensing fees. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday, September 3, 2008, as CBS Interactive Inc. v. National Football League Players Association, case number 08-cv-05097 ...
Eight Circuit's reading of the [fantasy baseball] case, calling it "unique and erroneous." The new case is National Football League Players Inc. v. CBS Interactive ...
8 Feb, 2008 5:45 am
... the Musical. However, for junior associates tasked with reviewing HSR documents, there may finally be a Second Request worthy of a second chance-one involving fantasy sports.
On Friday, February 1, Microsoft Corporation made a $44.6 billion hostile takeover offer to Yahoo Inc., which according to the American Antitrust Institute ("AAI"), "would
effectively reduce the number of significant competitors from three to two in the paid search ...
5 Sep, 2008 8:36 pm
... the NFL Players Association. See CBS Interactive Inc., v. National Football League Players Association (D. Minn., filed 9/3/08). CBS Interactive is a leader in fantasy
sports. In the past, CBS Interactive paid the NFLPA ... statistics. Moreover, it has stated that any party who challenges the NFLPA's claimed rights to the statistics will be excluded
from the fantasy football market. The Complaint seeks a declaration that any right of publicity is superseded by the First Amendment and preempted by the ...
4 May 9:34 am
... is protected by the First Amendment. Although there was no separate false endorsement claim, Players argued that the possibility of false endorsement distinguished CBS's use of
football statistics from the fantasy baseball allowed in C.B.C. Distrib. & Mktg, Inc. v. Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P., 505 F.3d 818 (8th Cir. 2006), for
purposes of preserving Players' right of publicity ...
21 Aug, 2006 2:30 pm
... they are and he has made those claims in a lawsuit he filed in New Jersey alleging that fantasy games are games of chance, not skill and therefore are gambling under New
Jersey law. Humphrey v. Viacom Inc., No. 2:33-av-00001 (D. ... ' tendencies to use certain players in certain situations will give that individual an advantage when it comes to
selecting players to place on a fantasy team. Wall Stree Journal writer Sam Walker, in his recent book Fantasyland, wrote extensively about ...
17 Nov, 2006 7:11 pm
... , not property of MLB or its players, the court found. In response to the growing number of sports fantasy leagues--leagues in which players "draft" imaginary rosters of real
players and ... license had expired, sought a declaratory judgment that it could use the statistics for online fantasy leagues without paying license fees. MLB argued that the
online league's ... domain." Fantasy leagues, and baseball fans across the country, can take a base walk. See: C.B.C. Distribution and Marketing Inc. v. ...
16 Oct, 2007 4:56 pm
The Eighth Circuit handed down its much awaited fantasy baseball decision in CBC Distribution & Marketing, Inc. v. Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P., the
appeal of the district court's summary ... baseball products violated their rights of publicity. Although the Eighth Circuit concluded that use by CBC of the names and statistics of the
players in its commercial fantasy baseball operations satisfied all three elements of the Missouri tort -- namely, (1) use of the player's name as a ...
16 Oct, 2007 4:56 pm
The Eighth Circuit handed down its much awaited fantasy baseball decision in CBC Distribution & Marketing, Inc. v. Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P., the
appeal of the district court's summary ... baseball products violated their rights of publicity. Although the Eighth Circuit concluded that use by CBC of the names and statistics of the
players in its commercial fantasy baseball operations satisfied all three elements of the Missouri tort -- namely, (1) use of the player's name as a ...
16 Oct, 2007 4:56 pm
The Eighth Circuit handed down its much awaited fantasy baseball decision in CBC Distribution & Marketing, Inc. v. Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P., the
appeal of the district court's summary ... baseball products violated their rights of publicity. Although the Eighth Circuit concluded that use by CBC of the names and statistics of the
players in its commercial fantasy baseball operations satisfied all three elements of the Missouri tort -- namely, (1) use of the player's name as a ...
16 Oct, 2007 11:56 pm
The Eighth Circuit handed down its much awaited fantasy baseball decision in CBC Distribution & Marketing, Inc. v. Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P., the
appeal of the district court's summary ... baseball products violated their rights of publicity. Although the Eighth Circuit concluded that use by CBC of the names and statistics of the
players in its commercial fantasy baseball operations satisfied all three elements of the Missouri tort -- namely, (1) use of the player's name as a ...
16 Oct, 2007 2:34 pm
Earlier today, the Eighth Circuit ruled against Major League Baseball in the high-profile fantasy baseball case of CBC Distribution and Marketing, Inc. v. Major League
Baseball Advanced Media. The case was brought by CBC, a ... from a First Amendment point of view, but the really interesting implication of the case is what it will mean for the massive
(and profitable) fantasy sports industry. CBC had been a licensee of baseball for the statistics, but baseball terminated the license a few years ago, ...
29 Oct, 2007 9:59 pm
... the use of player names and statistics on fantasy baseball sites established by C.B.C. Distribution and Marketing, Inc. C.B.C. brought a declaratory ... the unlicensed
use of names and statistics of major league baseball players in connection with fantasy baseball products available on-line. The district court granted summary judgment in favor
of ... sweep by affirming the district court in C.B.C. Distribution and Marketing Inc., v. Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P. In affirming the district ...
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