In 2008, hall-of-fame football player/actor Jim Brown, sued Electronic Arts for putting his all-time-great team -- the 1964 Cleveland Browns -- into the Madden series.  He claimed that he and other players were recognizable by their number, position, skin color, weight and height along with other features.  He finally received some compensation as of recently he was awarded $600,000 in a settlement with EA, but the road to get there was a long an arduous one.

As mentioned above he claimed that these players likeness were in the game without their consent. The names of these players were removed, but there were obvious attempts to get around it as the recognizable traits of the players were still present. In Brown's case a judge had ruled that EA's actions were permissible because games are treated as expressive art and EA abode by this defense claiming the First Amendment. In 2015 however, EA was denied their dismissal of Brown's case by a Los Angeles Court which led us to this week when EA finally made a settlement with Brown which granted him his six hundred grand.

Source: Hagens Berman