Wednesday, August 9, 2006

WE'RE TALKIN' BASEBALL: In what seemed to me to be a blatantly obvious application of INS v. AP, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri has ruled that fantasy baseball leagues can use real player names and statistics without a license from MLB. This raises all sorts of questions--can a video game use real player names and statistics, but not team names or uniform designs, without the consent of the league? And in a related issue (which I'm reminded of both by my father and by the fact that I was involved in litigation about a similar issue recently), what's the deal with the new NFL officials' uniforms?

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