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Tony Davis has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of over 6,000 retired football professional players over the use of the players likenesses in Madden NFL 2009.

The plaintiffs argue that EA never compensated thousands of retired players whose likenesses were used to fill the rosters for the game’s historic teams. The suit alleges that EA “knowingly and intentionally” included the stats, positions, height and weights of retired players, but removed player names and uniform numbers to avoid paying anyone.

Normally, the player likeness and the rights attributed are owned by the NFL and one must obtain a license from the NFL for the use of such likenesses.  It will be interesting if EA never acquired those licenses.

Mozilla named the winners of its Firefox Flicks video contest at the San Francisco International Film Festival last week. Nearly 300 Firefox fans submitted entries in the competition to promote the open source browser through short film. The grand prize went to "Daredevil," which will be short-listed for the NY Festival of Advertising's 2006 International Advertising Awards in May, according to Mozilla. The finalists' videos will be used in Mozilla's 2006 Firefox marketing activities, the company said.

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Chip giant Intel this week signaled a cost-cutting reorganization amid slower sales of its microprocessors and related silicon and software products. Chief Executive Paul Otellini reported the company would seek to save as much as US$1 billion this year. The leading chip company in the world, Intel does not typically make moves to pare down its operations, and has even added workers and invested in development during slumps in the overall tech economy.

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Intel is preparing a cost cutting reorganization, the chipmaker's chief executive Paul Otellini said at a financial analyst conference. The restructuring will include all parts of the company, the executive said, calling it an attempt to "adjust to the business realities of today [and] tomorrow." Otellini didn't say if the reorganization will lead to layoffs, but he did promise to "deal with non-performing business units" and said that he would evaluate key metrics such as the cost per unit and productivity.

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