{"id":747,"date":"2008-09-05T15:08:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T20:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=747"},"modified":"2008-09-05T15:08:28","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T20:08:28","slug":"bwahahahaha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/747","title":{"rendered":"Bwahahahaha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jnbXJba6wk9gsO1cvud9aCVnRTJwD930O8DO2\">CBS sues NFL Players over fantasy football<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CBS has filed a federal lawsuit in Minneapolis to clarify who can use the statistics that underlie fantasy football leagues.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit filed earlier this week claims the NFL Players Association has threatened to sue the company if it does not pay licensing fees for the statistics.<\/p>\n<p>CBS Interactive seeks a ruling saying that the players cannot control use of the publicly available numbers and cannot demand that CBS pays for their use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Baseball has already lost a suit in which they wanted leagues to pay for the right to use players&#8217; names.  How freaking greedy can these millionaires get?  One can argue that fantasy leagues promote <em>more<\/em> viewership \u2014 especially of otherwise uninteresting games, where you have a stake in the performance of a player or two but care not a whit for either team.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS sues NFL Players over fantasy football CBS has filed a federal lawsuit in Minneapolis to clarify who can use the statistics that underlie fantasy football leagues. The lawsuit filed earlier this week claims the NFL Players Association has threatened &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/747\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,51,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-silly","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}