This week on the California Sports Lawyer Podcast, host Jeremy Evans examines a growing question in modern sports: who owns probability. As leagues, sportsbooks, data firms, and media platforms expand real-time analytics and betting content, win probabilities, predictive models, and live odds are becoming valuable assets.

Jeremy explains how probability is created, packaged, and monetized across broadcasts, apps, and betting platforms, and where the legal lines fall between raw sports data, proprietary modeling, and intellectual property. The episode also explores what this means for leagues and teams asserting control over official data, sportsbooks building differentiated products, and media partners using probability to shape fan engagement.

Finally, we look ahead at how rights deals and disputes may evolve as probability becomes a core part of the sports product. (Season 7, Episode 49).

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This week on the California Sports Lawyer Podcast, host Jeremy Evans breaks down the rise of the "franchise sports studio" — how leagues, teams, and media partners are quietly rebuilding sports to look a lot more like Hollywood. Using the new UFC–Paramount deal as a roadmap, Jeremy explores how live games and fights are becoming the tentpole "blockbusters", surrounded by year-round universes of shoulder programming, docuseries, origin stories, rivalries, and archival content that keep fans locked in between events.

We unpack how this shift is reshaping dealmaking: rights packages moving from "games only" to "games plus universe," athletes being treated as long-term IP with life story and likeness rights in play, and why control over the narrative engine around a property is becoming as valuable as the event itself. Jeremy explains what this means for leagues, athletes, streamers, networks, and sponsors — from contract negotiation and editorial control to NIL leverage, brand building, and new revenue streams across platforms.

Finally, we look ahead at where the franchise sports studio model goes from here: more crossovers between sports and entertainment, deeper integration of archives and storytelling, and how stakeholders can protect competitive integrity while still embracing cinematic, year-round engagement. If you care about where the business of sports is headed — and who owns the stories that keep fans watching — this episode is for you. (Season 7, Episode 48).

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This week on the California Sports Lawyer Podcast, host Jeremy Evans unpacks the fast-moving "shadow library" controversy now reshaping generative AI. After a major court setback for OpenAI, the spotlight is on the allegedly unlicensed books and internet materials used to train large language models (LLM)—and why "chain of title" for data is becoming the next legal battleground.

We dig into how a pay-to-license future could trigger a full-blown licensing gold rush, turning clean, cleared datasets into the most valuable asset in AI. Jeremy explains what this means for platform costs, access, and the next wave of dealmaking—especially for entertainment, media, and sports libraries packed with talent NIL and archival content.

Finally, we look ahead: possible policy and market solutions (from opt-out training exemptions to rights societies, dataset marketplaces, and even blockchain-verified licensing), and why lawmakers and developers must balance enforcement with public access and innovation. If you care about who gets paid when AI "uses" human creativity—and who gets to build the future—this episode is for you. (Season 7, Episode 47). Copyright 2025. California Sports Lawyer. All Rights Reserved. (www.CSLlegal.com).

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