http://boltbeat.com/2011/04/21/eric-weddle-suing-alka-seltzer/

“You authorize the NCAA [or a third party acting on behalf of the NCAA (e.g., host institution, conference, local organizing committee)] to use your name and picture in accordance with Bylaw 12.5, including to promote NCAA championships or other NCAA events, activities or programs.”

So someone please tell me how selling Alka Seltzer is promoting an “NCAA event, activity, or program” ?

i thought it had to do with him needing Bayer aspirin after Darren McFadden ran him over at Qualcomm last year…
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That was awesome, talk about finishing a run, wow.

Wasn’t that the same game where Marcel Reece hurdled him cleanly in the open field?

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I’m willing to bet that most guys on this site do not remember Speedy.

And for the people bashing on Weddle… obviously the company thought that using his image would boost sales, or they would have used a different image.

Guy should get paid for the same things anyone else gets paid for, shouldn’t lose certain rights for all of eternity because he participated in an NCAA sport.

His image is part of his brand.

He deserves to get paid for it being used.

That said – I’d be willing to bet he signed a release for the images to be used by the parent company ‘without limitation’ or ‘future consent’ or ‘future compensation’. He and his agent probably missed the fine print when cashing the check.

They either weren’t part of the decision by Bayer and Athlon to use this image, in which case those companies have misappropriated the university’s intellectual property for their own commercial purposes, and Bayer should be suing them as well.

OR, they were part of the process by which Bayer and Athlon used the image, in which case the school should be a co-defendant.

The school can use an image of Weddle for its own purposes (and perhaps only while he’s an enrolled student), but I don’t think that includes licensing out that image to companies for commercial purposes. If they are allowed to do this, then Weddle has no case at all. So Weddle cannot argue that the school can sell the image to companies but then the companies cannot use the image. That makes no sense. So the University should be classified as a co-conspirator (if they actually sold or otherwise authorized use of the image).

Seems like Eric is a widdle big for his britches….

i thought that’s what the whole no pay for play thing about college was about

i’d rule against weddle in this instance

just based on common sense

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

case against Bayer et al. Zilch. Zero . Nadda.

So you better stick to football, Eric, and leave the litigation to the lawyers (oh, wait…)

I see a pattern emerging here though. The players elected an ambulance chaser to head up their union, oops, I mean association. Now the members are becoming just like DEmo, lil ambulance chasing followers.

If their own defense is that they thought he wasn’t identifiable enough, that’s not going to hold up. This seems totally justified to me.