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Originally Posted by Cryomaniac
Names in themselves shouldn't be an issue. The issue in O'Bannon v. NCCA was Likeness, which is legally distinct from just a name.
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Thanks. I was just thinking about this in the shower and came back to post.
Producing a college game probably isn't nearly as daunting from a roster perspective as one might imagine. You can literally just make every player fictional. That's what EA does (or claims to do). I wouldn't even bother trying to make them similar to their real human counterparts. You only would open yourself up to a suit, and users will create the rosters for download anyway. All that's needed for a college franchise is a tweaked game engine from this, and a deep recruiting engine. A few other minor things like schedule creation and redahirting, etc...