• NCAA considers allowing pro sports betting by student-athletes

    The NCAA’s Division I Council announced a proposal in June that, if adopted in October, would change sports betting rules to permit student-athletes and staff members to bet on professional sports.

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  • How the proposed NCAA settlement will impact intellectual property law

    Under the proposal, colleges for the first time would be able to pay student-athletes directly for their name, image and likeness rights.

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  • Circuit court ruling shakes up NCAA amateurism model

    When a high-profile college athlete puts fans in the seats and drives up sports revenue at their universities, does it primarily benefit them or their schools? A Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruling earlier this month in Johnson v. National Collegiate Athletic Association examined that question and could put an end to the idea of […]

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  • The new frontier: Indiana attorneys navigating name, image, likeness ‘Wild, Wild West’

    On June 21, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously ruled the National Collegiate Athletic Association couldn’t prohibit athletes on teams at member schools from receiving certain education-related compensation. In affirming the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ opinion in NCAA, et al. v. Alston, et al., college athletes were given the green light to get paid for their names, images and likenesses. By June 30, the NCAA had released an interim NIL policy, providing general guidelines as to how universities and athletes could approach NIL business ventures while also complying with existing NCAA bylaws prohibiting “pay-for-play” arrangements.

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