{"id":1367,"date":"2024-11-18T19:32:26","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T20:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2024-11-21T14:17:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T14:17:28","slug":"fanduel-mlbpa-settle-nil-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/11\/18\/fanduel-mlbpa-settle-nil-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"FanDuel, MLBPA Settle NIL Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Major League Baseball Players Association (MLPBA) settled litigation with FanDuel over the sportsbook operator\u2019s alleged unauthorized use of union members\u2019 name, image, and likeness (NIL).<\/p>\n

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Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs. The Major League Baseball Players Association (MLPBA) settled litigation with FanDuel. (Image: ABC7<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In September, the union representing the league\u2019s athletes sued multiple sports wagering companies<\/a> in New York and Philadelphia courts, claiming that the operators were using images of Major Baseball (MLB) players on their sports betting platforms without the consent of the union and without compensating those athletes.<\/p>\n

A copy of the settlement between FanDuel and the union indicates the suit was dismissed with prejudice, meaning the MLBPA cannot renew the same litigation at a later date.<\/p>\n

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(The union and FanDuel) shall each bear their own attorneys\u2019 fees and costs incurred in connection with this matter,\u201d according to a copy of the settlement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The professional baseball labor group acknowledged the agreement, but hasn\u2019t commented further on the matter.<\/p>\n

Settlement Could Be Good News for Other Operators<\/h2>\n

When the MLBPA litigation was revealed in September, FanDuel was one of four gaming companies the union was targeting. The others were bet365, DraftKings, and Underdog Fantasy. FanDuel and Underdog Fantasy were sued by the union in the New York State Supreme Court. It\u2019s not yet clear if Underdog has been removed from that suit.<\/p>\n

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The MLBPA\u2019s suit against bet365 and DraftKings was filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. As of yet, there is no word on any settlement pertaining to that litigation, but it\u2019s possible the settlement with FanDuel could pave the way for similar agreements to be reached.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

That could be to the benefit of all parties involved, particularly to one of the aforementioned sportsbook operators that is dealing with civil litigation<\/a> on multiple fronts.<\/p>\n

Unions Attempting to Safeguard Players\u2019 NIL Rights<\/h2>\n

Athletes\u2019 NIL is their equivalent of intellectual property, and professional leagues\u2019 player unions are looking to protect those rights. Said another way, while it\u2019s common for athletes to appear in advertisements for any number of companies \u2013 plenty have appeared in commercials<\/a> for sportsbook operators \u2013 they\u2019re compensated for doing so.<\/p>\n

The root of the MLBPA\u2019s suit against the aforementioned quartet of gaming companies was the claim that the operators used images of nearly all of the players in MLB to entice customers to make player proposition wagers. The union claimed that neither it nor its members were compensated for the use of the athlete images.<\/p>\n

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For professional athletes, the ability to control the commercial use of their names, images, and likenesses is a crucial return on their substantial career investment,\u201d said the union in the original suit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In asserting that the \u201cflagrant\u201d misuse of athletes\u2019 images could harm their long-term earnings potential, the MLBPA also claimed that given the highly statistical nature of baseball, which borders on nerdy and wonky, it was unnecessary for the gaming companies to use player images to compel bettors to make prop wagers.<\/p>\n

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The Major League Baseball Players Association (MLPBA) settled litigation with FanDuel over the sportsbook operator\u2019s alleged unauthorized use of union members\u2019 name, image, and likeness (NIL). Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs. The Major League Baseball Players Association (MLPBA) settled litigation with FanDuel. (Image: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}