CBS sues for free access to stats for fantasy football……Can you say Greedy???

MINNEAPOLIS — CBS has filed a federal lawsuit in Minneapolis to clarify who can use the statistics that underlie fantasy football leagues.

The lawsuit filed earlier this week claims the NFL Players Association has threatened to sue the company if it does not pay licensing fees for the statistics.

CBS Interactive seeks a ruling saying that the players cannot control use of the publicly available numbers and cannot demand CBS pay for their use.

Players association attorney Jeffrey Kessler isn’t commenting because he just got the lawsuit.

In a case involving a Missouri-based company’s fantasy baseball games, major league baseball players argued they should be paid for the commercial use of their names. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis ruled against the players earlier this year.

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The NFLPA wants more money than they are already getting paid because Fantasy Football Leagues are using their names and stats to play in all its leagues. Personally if the NFLPA wants to play this game, I’ll just play one right back. I’ll back old school and just look up the stats for every player in every league I am playing in.  Before there were computers and Live Scoring on all the websites like CBS, ESPN, FOX and countless others there was the good old fashioned news paper.  Now that there are computers, you can look up stats just as fast in a box score or will the NLFPA file a suit against people using Box Scores as well???  The stats are free if you ask me, if there wasn’t any fantasy leagues what would the NLFPA complain about then??  What is next, Royalty fees for just speaking names of the NFLPA players in public????  The NFLPA might want to start suing all the NFL Pre-Game shows as well. If you ask me the NFLPA just needs to concentrate on keeping its players out of the News and Police Blotters!!!!

Josh Hammer - Overtime Sportz