According to Yahoo Sports, former Bruin Ed O’Bannon, who won a national championship with UCLA in 1995 and was named the tournament’s most outstanding player, is filing a suit against the NCAA because he feels the entity illegally forces athletes to sign away their rights to the commercial use of their images in video games and DVDs, among other things, and does not give any percentage of the earnings to them.
The suit asks for an unspecified restitution to former athletes for using their images and an injunction from current student athletes to keep the NCAA from licensing the rights to these.
NCAA spokesman Bob Williams declined to comment, saying the NCAA was still reviewing the case.
