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Ka-pi96 said:

JEMC said:

If they do that last part, sales will fall like a rock.

I'm going to say that EA will argue that it has the Fifa license, the different national leagues licenses and also most teams licenses as well, and the use of currently active players is allowed by those licenses they've got. They'll need something more creative to explain the use of retired players but, ultimately, they can just include the ones that agree to be in and scrap the ones that don't.

The FIFPro licence is the important one.

FIFA is the crappiest licence there is, literally just lets them use the name "FIFA". The national league licences mostly only allow the name of the league, no clubs or players. The FIFPro licence is the one that lets them use player names/likenesses. FIFPro is the player union. Zlatan's issue stems from him saying he's not a member of the union and thus his likeness isn't included in that licence.

It's possible he has a legit claim, it may also be possible that the MLS hold image rights for him as part of his contract and therefore EA have access to them through the MLS licence. Very few players would be able to make such a complaint though since the vast majority of them should be in the player's union.

They don't need anything creative to explain retired players, they're individual licence deals directly with the players (or their families) like the Beckham one mentioned above. That's why they don't have more, or why they had to wait awhile to get some.

Crazy if that 40m for Beckham is true though. Makes you wonder how much the other icon players are getting. Beckham wasn't even that good

As you can see from the article I've posted today, EA denies that they're paying Beckham so much. Maybe the newspaper exagerated it.

In any case, as you comment, EA has the right licenses to use the names and faces of players and so they're safe from any legal problem. The only trouble could come from former players or the ones that aren't in the union, and it's easier for EA to simply stop using them than to pay for use their names.