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<blockquote data-quote="Trev@Swordfish" data-source="post: 40463"><p>Things have changed an enormous amount since then. Codemasters took a flyer on JLR. They had no team licenses and at the end of the day the players were pretty unrecognisable. Brian Moore would have found it difficult to prove that the bunch of pixels on the screen was actually him.</p><p></p><p>There is a sort of reasonableness test that we use. If you took the player graphic out of the game and showed it to someone with a reasonable knowledge of that subject (ie. rugby), would they know who it was. If the answer is yes, then you need a license. That's not a 'letter of the law' test but it's a good guide.</p><p></p><p>The actual laws surrounding player images, player names (written and audio) and competition/location/events copyright is a total minefield. It's unbelievably complex and frustrating.</p><p></p><p>Generally the players rights are owned by their respective RFU ... so Tana is owned by the NZRFU, but his image rights are owned by him. But whether we could use an image of him on the box by doing a deal direct with him will depend on the exact terms of his deal with the NZRFU.</p><p></p><p>Remember WCR was going to have Howlett on the box in NZ. A deal was done and the artwork produced - I saw it. But the RFU complained and I believe it actually went to arbitration in the end (I do not know all of the details). Acclaim lost and we ended up using ZZB because he was no longer an international player. Nightmare!</p><p></p><p>And that's just a tiny taster of the crap that goes on in the background where licenses are concerned.</p><p></p><p>EA have us totally locked out of SH too - we can't get diddly down there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trev@Swordfish, post: 40463"] Things have changed an enormous amount since then. Codemasters took a flyer on JLR. They had no team licenses and at the end of the day the players were pretty unrecognisable. Brian Moore would have found it difficult to prove that the bunch of pixels on the screen was actually him. There is a sort of reasonableness test that we use. If you took the player graphic out of the game and showed it to someone with a reasonable knowledge of that subject (ie. rugby), would they know who it was. If the answer is yes, then you need a license. That's not a 'letter of the law' test but it's a good guide. The actual laws surrounding player images, player names (written and audio) and competition/location/events copyright is a total minefield. It's unbelievably complex and frustrating. Generally the players rights are owned by their respective RFU ... so Tana is owned by the NZRFU, but his image rights are owned by him. But whether we could use an image of him on the box by doing a deal direct with him will depend on the exact terms of his deal with the NZRFU. Remember WCR was going to have Howlett on the box in NZ. A deal was done and the artwork produced - I saw it. But the RFU complained and I believe it actually went to arbitration in the end (I do not know all of the details). Acclaim lost and we ended up using ZZB because he was no longer an international player. Nightmare! And that's just a tiny taster of the crap that goes on in the background where licenses are concerned. EA have us totally locked out of SH too - we can't get diddly down there. [/QUOTE]
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