[RU4Scuba]

bigguy219 Wrote:The issue I have isn't with the card companies. The issue I have is with agencies like CMG that continue to charge for the person's likeness even after they're dead. I believe that once they're deceased, any company that has a MLB license should be able to produce cards of that player without having to shell out money to some agent. No one should own these players.

You're a bit misguided here. The estates of these players sold the rights to their likeness to CMG. If anyone is selling out, it is the families of the deceased.

EDIT: Nevermind... many others made this point before me.

[Crash Davis]

lisu Wrote:

Brad1431 Wrote:how much do you think they paid for that?

They probably only had to pay their lawyers' fees...so maybe $100,000 depending on how ridiculous their lawyers are. Topps probably had to pay more for legal fees.

What I find hysterical is the fact that Upper Deck didn't release a PR stating that there was a temporary restraining order against their products, but they used the lifting of the TRO to as a marketing ploy in a PR announcing the lifting.

And what they also did was make it sound as if the boys at Topps did some huge injustice by suing them.

Please.

Upper Deck egregiously violated the Topps/CMG contract. That much is obvious.

Topps owns the rights to produce trading cards with the likenesses of those players in the CMG contract EXCLUSIVELY. What part of exclusive did the cronies at Upper Deck not understand?

Topps paid money and UD produced the cards and without the legal right to do so.

It's like stealing cable from your neighbor down the street, only at a much higher level.

I bet they have Rusty Hardin as their Chief Counsel. LOL.