14 DAY TRIAL // The team of lawyers representing college American football players who have launched a legal battle against publisher Electronic Arts over the rights to use their likeness in video games says that they never wanted to see video games based on the sport disappear.
Leonard Aragon, the co-lead counsel, tells Polygon that, “That’s not us. We didn’t tell them to do that. We would be fine if they published a game.”
The only condition is that the NCAA should create a way for players, on which the football game series is built, to get access to some of the revenue derived by the publisher and their college partners.
Electronic Arts has already announced that a college level American football game will not be launched in 2014 and that the future of the entire series hangs in the balance because of the current lawsuit.
The NCAA no longer has a deal with the game company, but individual colleges are still able to create their own licensing agreements, even if a number of them have so far refused to do so before litigation ends.