| Within two years RotoNews had become one of the top ten most trafficked sports sites on the web, according to Media Metrix, ranking higher than such sites as NBA | states to legalize at the time, began offering fantasy sports wagering for the first time |
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| The site included updates of NHL statistics, also provided content, from the | 5 million people age 12 and above in the U |
Other states with a stricter definition of chance, called "any chance test", have made fantasy football illegal.
30| These states include Kansas 2015 , Indiana, Virginia, Missouri, Massachusetts, Colorado, Tennessee, New York, Mississippi 2016 , Arkansas, New Jersey, Vermont, New Hampshire, Ohio, Maine, Vermont, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Connecticut 2017 | CBC argued that intellectual property laws and so-called "right of publicity" laws don't apply to the statistics used in fantasy sports |
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| When CBC was denied a new licensing agreement with MLBAM they had acquired the rights from the baseball players' association for its fantasy baseball game, CBC filed suit | " However, since initial legal challenges, 21 states have since enacted laws confirming that DFS contests are legal games of skill |
July 2, 2007, at the• "The names and playing records of major-league baseball players as used in CBC's fantasy games are not copyrightable," Medler wrote.
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