Sixth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Student Athlete’s Bid for TV Money

The 6Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit brought by ten former college athletes, who claimed that the networks and conferences profited from their names and likenesses without their permission.   In so ruling the panel of judges called the plaintiffs’ argument -- that “under Tennessee statutory and common law, college players have a ‘right of publicity’ in their names and images as they might appear in television broadcast