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Showing 3 posts from April 2026.
How Athletes Can Protect Their NIL Online
A Practical Guide to Monitoring, Enforcement, and Brand Protection
For today’s athletes, visibility is both an opportunity and a risk. The same platforms that help build a personal brand also make it easy for others to misuse an athlete’s name, image, or likeness for their own gain. Many student‑athletes experience this when they stumble across a fake merch page, an impersonation account, or a video ad using their image without permission.
To respond effectively and quickly athletes need a structured notice‑and‑takedown strategy. Before diving into enforcement, it’s helpful to understand what NIL actually is and why the law treats it differently from other forms of intellectual property. More >
Who Owns the Moment? Rights in Sports Photos and Videos
One of the most addictive parts of sport is its ability to capture our imagination and create enduring memories. If we are lucky, we can capture visual depictions of those moments to relive the memories. Whether we are capturing the experience in person on our cameras or at home and watching the experience on our televisions or through social media, sports memories and video or photographic depictions of those memories go hand-in-hand. For me it was Kirk Gibson rounding the bases after his 1988 game winning homerun and Reggie Miller’s 8 points in 8.9 seconds (a/k/a the night he 
directed a choke gesture to Spike Lee). For my son, by far the biggest sports fan I know, it is probably a tie between Omar Cooper’s toe-tap game-winning touchdown over Penn State or the Sports Illustrated cover-worthy diving touchdown by Indiana’s Heisman-winning quarterback that sealed Indiana’s improbable national championship. Many people reading this will know those images. But how? Not everyone watched those games. Those memories were captured and redisplayed. Many people claim rights in those redisplayed memories. More >
Opening the Door to Maximum Brand Value in a Post-House World
An athlete’s name, image, and likeness (“NIL”) are part of his or her brand. An athlete’s name, image, and likeness are all valuable assets. Professional athletes often protect their NIL, and now, as a result of the House v. NCAA settlement, student athletes can do the same. More >
