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Originally Posted by KurtBevacqua
That's just lawyer spin to frame an argument around the indisputable facts the names and data are in the public domain.
Precedents abound. People write unauthorized biographies for profit all the time about public figures. Magazine articles are frequently written for profit about people in Hollywood whose names may be incorporated or licensed for some type of production. You can't monopolize names and data in the public domain. You can say use of major league trademarks or the player's union trademark is in violation. And the use of current day player names in video games appears to be respected, however I suspect if someone took that to court they could beat the union as well. Otherwise things as simple as CNN and newspapers would have to pay a fee everytime they did a story on the game of the week or published a boxscore.
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That's not lawyer spin. It's more like you bought in the lawyer spin of that fantasy baseball company. They are trying to make it something more agreeable for you, and you fell into their trap.
It's a fact websites like baseball-references don't have to pay. It's only financial fantasy baseball companies that are involved in this lawsuit. This is more close to OOTP using player names in game without paying licence fees.