A home run for fantasy baseball leagues

The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheldthe ruling of the District Court that CBC's use of baseballplayers' names and statistics in its fantasy baseball leaguedid not violate the players' rights of publicity because itwas protected speech under the First Amendment of the US Constitution,and that an earlier contractual provision between the partiescould not be enforced against CBC to preclude its use of theplayers' names and statistics.