How so? If likeness in a video game warrants compensation, then any likeness in any video game warrants compensation...or are we narrow mindedly just talking about college football...wow...its a VIDEO GAME!!!!!
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How so? If likeness in a video game warrants compensation, then any likeness in any video game warrants compensation...or are we narrow mindedly just talking about college football...wow...its a VIDEO GAME!!!!!
Which player in the game is named Gerry gdowski?
If someone goes out in public and has their picture taken haven't they given up their right to get money for it?
Then pay them. ESPECIALLY if that was a vital component of the game. Did people buy the game because of the Iwo Jima flag scene? Doubtful. The ONLY reason the EA sports games are as wildly popular as they are is because you ARE Taylor Martinez carrying the ball or J'Daveon Clowny crushing the QB. I believe there was a looooooong thread on one of these boards with guys talking about the game or some season they put together...whatever...I didn't pay attention because I grew out of video games around the same time I grew out of cartoons. But I'm going to guess that actual player names are all over that thread..."Dude! Martinez is killing it for my husker team!" They aren't a big reason the game is successful. They are the ONLY reason.
Hell no. You think someone can take your picture at the mall and then put your picture on a billboard and say that "Hey...combatTargeteer shops at Oakview mall...so should you!" No way. There's a line...that would be crossing it. Can you be among 90,000 at an NU game and NU sells a poster of a full stadium...of course. It's not depicting you...you aren't the reason that poster sells and you aren't endorsing it.
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That's what you took out of my post? Did I say a player in the game was named Gerry gdowski?
Is you likeness a key component in the success of a WWII video game? The answer is no.
I'm glad when I argue I'm just stupid. I couldn't handle incredibly stupid.
If you want to support litigation from former student athletes seeking compensation for something they didn't participate in, then feel free...as a physician, I'm constantly hoping that people like that don't come into my practice, especially if its their avatar thats hurt...
They participated unwillingly.
Is Sam Keller, or his virtual name, the reason my son bought this years game? No. Point is, the game is purchased for a thousand more reasons than player likeness. Its an expectation that players and their skills during a given season are accurately reflected for game play purposes...has nothing to do with involvement...it'd not real. Its a game. Its fantasy. Sam Keller is not in the game. He was a student athlete...ea did the best they could or knew how to create a realistic virtual experience. Player attributes are subjective...society has gone overboard in this instance...
Um, there was no participation...its a video game.
Do you know what a Class Action lawsuit is?
And you say there are a thousand more reason other than player likeness as to why people buy it. You are 100% wrong. What makes the game so "cool" is the very fact that the players ARE the "real" players. Everyone knows the #3 from NU is Taylor Martinez. If it was around in the mid 90's everyone knew #15 was Tommie frazier. People didn't buy it for any ONE player. They buy it because it's ALL of the players.
No, just the one's where it's obvious that the likeness is meant to be a specific person and that specific person enhances the marketability of the game. In the case of Keller, the 2005 EA game had the "same height, weight, skin tone, hair color, hairstyle, handedness, home state, statistics, play style (pocket passer), visor preference, facial features, and school year as Keller."
I promise you that if EA Sports made a snowboarder game featuring a rider with the same height, weight, skin tone, hair color, hairstyle, footedness, home state, riding style (big air), hat preference, and facial features as Shaun White, they would get sued stat.
Having real players in the EA NCAA football game or Shaun White in a snowboarder game enhances the value of the game. Even if you could satisfy a court that a real soldier's likeness was being used, how does that enhance the marketability of the game?
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Their likeness is portrayed in the video game. Therefore they participated unwillingly.
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