NFL and Its Licensing Unit Owe Former Players

The NFL and its licensing unit owe 2,062 former NFL players royalties.

A federal jury found in November that the National Football League Players Association and its licensing unit, Players Inc., owed as many as 2,062 former NFL players royalties from licensing agreements with companies such as video-game maker Electronic Arts Inc., makers of the popular "Madden NFL" video game. The jury ordered the association to pay $7.1 million in actual damages and $21 million in punitive damages after determining that the union had ignored contracts covering reimbursement for use of the retired players' images in such things as video games and sports trading cards.

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