Some college athletes are being asked to sign away the rights to their own tattoos. At least one college wants to sell the rights to its players' dance moves.
NCAA schools are going to contractual extremes when it comes to the name, image and likeness deals that they are now signing in the expected new era of direct college payments to athletes. The deals, which could become effective this summer, are designed to be generous enough so athletes will commit to a school but also stringent enough to stop the constant churn of transfers that has introduced upheaval in college sports.
Along the way, school lawyers are constructing NIL contracts to exert control over athletes without making them official college employees. But experts who reviewed a sampling of more than a dozen NIL contracts obtained by ESPN said the deals bear the hallmarks of employment contracts.
A federal judge is nearing a decision on the NCAA's $2.8 billion antitrust settlement -- a deal that was supposed to dampen a frenzy of litigation surrounding athletes' demands to share in the profits generated by college sports. Instead, experts say, the contracts now being signed by athletes might actually strengthen a line of attack in court: that these are de facto employment contracts, and if college athletes are employees, they should...
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