{"id":669444,"date":"2026-04-08T02:44:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/669444\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T02:44:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:44:31","slug":"mlb-players-union-draftkings-settle-publicity-rights-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/669444\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Players\u2019 Union, DraftKings Settle Publicity Rights Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A unit of the Major League Baseball players\u2019 union settled its right of publicity lawsuit against sports-betting platform DraftKings Inc. in Pennsylvania federal court.<\/p>\n<p>MLB Players Inc.&#8217;s case over DraftKings\u2019 use of player names and images was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/document\/MLBPLAYERSINCvDRAFTKINGSINCDocketNo224cv04884EDPaSep162024CourtDo\/10?doc_id=X5FV2NVP8BP9IDQ3UAG2VT5ISPT\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dismissed with prejudice<\/a> Monday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania after the parties told the court they\u2019d resolved the matter. Details of the resolution weren\u2019t immediately available, and attorneys for the parties didn\u2019t immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The case is one of a number of publicity rights and trademark lawsuits against sports-betting platforms brought by leagues, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A unit of the Major League Baseball players\u2019 union settled its right of publicity lawsuit against sports-betting platform&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2276],"tags":[5,85120,85118,2291,4,1586,85119,65407,46813],"class_list":{"0":"post-669444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-draft","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-constitutional-law","10":"tag-dismissal","11":"tag-major-league-baseball-draft","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-mlb-draft","14":"tag-right-of-publicity","15":"tag-settlements","16":"tag-student-athletes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116366794081504006","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}