Let's make it clear what this lawsuit is about. From the complaint, items 57 and 58, the great atrocities committed by the WPT are:
1) The WPT has used video footage from one of their tourneys
inside a WPT video game
2) The WPT has used video footage of a WPT tourney at their fantasy camps.
http://wptlawsuit.com/files/29194-27742/Complaint.pdf
That's it. Despite Raymer's spin, they haven't put Raymer's image on a billboard and used it to try to sell Coke or something. Nope, the WPT has merely used snippets of video footage.
So, the real issue is not whether the WPT should be able to use the players' likenesses, but rather whether the WPT should be able to use WPT video footage not to promote products, but rather
within products.
Personally, I think the WPT should be able to use their video footage in this manner. At the very least, the WPT should be able to include language in their release that allows them to use video footage in this manner.
Anyway, now you can see what these 7 goofballs are really after. They want to be paid any time the WPT uses video footage that includes them. These "elite 7" belive they should be paid to appear in WPT broadcasts. They want to have control over how WPT uses any video footage with them in it.
Now that we've gotten down to the real issue in this case, you can see that the WPT is not this evil monster that the 7 plaintiffs are trying to make them out to be. The real issue is whether the WPT should have control over its own broadcast footage. This lawsuit is not about Raymer's image appearing on a billboard without his consent, but rather it is about WPT footage possibly being used to teach at a fantasy camp (or something similar).
I think Annie Duke summed up the feelings of the elite 7 with her recent comment: "We're not even slaves. We're people paying to pick cotton."