Fantasy sports stats and the First Amendment

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The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed lower court's decision finding that a fantasy sports league's "first amendment rights in offering its fantasy baseball products supersede the players' rights of publicity" in linking their names to their baseball statistics. C.B.C. Distribution and Marketing, Inc. v. Major League Baseball Advanced Media

Previously, coverage of the District Court decision, Baseball stats in the fact-based community

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