To baseball fans, October is for nail-biting, then celebration or heartbreak. In fantasy baseball, the month proved no less momentous.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled in mid-October that fantasy baseball companies’ use of baseball players’ names and statistics were protected by the First Amendment. The ruling was a blow to Major League Baseball, which in 2005 had entered into a $50 million deal with the Major League Baseball Players Association, the players union, for exclusive licensing rights to players’ data.
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