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NEW: Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) is introducing NIL legislation, which his office says will allow college athletes â individually and as a group â to make money off their names, images and likenesses "with the fewest restrictions possible." Includes mechanism for group licensing.
Sen. Chris Murphy & Rep. Lori Trahan's College Athlete Economic Freedom Act would prohibit colleges, conferences, and the NCAA from setting or enforcing rules that restrict NIL or otherwise colluding to limit how athletes can use their NIL.
Notable: This would prohibit schools, conferences and the NCAA from setting rules restricting athletes' NIL right for prospective college athletes, too.
It would protect college athletes' rights to having a collective representative, such as a college athletes association, to facilitate group licensing agreements or provide legal representation without interference from colleges, conferences, or the NCAA.
Group licensing would be huge, obviously, for the resurrected EA Sports college football video game: https://theathletic.com/2362529/2021/02/02/ea-sports-college-football-video-game-nil/
Sen. Murphy in a statement: "It's simple: this is about restoring athletes' ownership over the use of their own names and likeness. They own their brand, not their school or the NCAA."
Here's the proposed legislation, for those who want to read it: https://www.murphy.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/MCC21100.pdf
