The “Oswaldinato” Problem: What the EA Sports Litigation in Brazil Means for Every American Company That Uses the Image of a Brazilian Athlete

By Caroline Nogueira Costa[36] More than a decade of litigation was required to resolve the legal dispute between Brazilian soccer players and EA Sports FC, which is responsible for the FIFA video game franchise (now EA Sports FC). To understand what happened, it is necessary to clarify the role of each stakeholder in this case, which transformed the way image-rights contracts involving Brazilian athletes are negotiated. FIFPro is a nonprofit organization that acquires image rights from affiliat