MLB players' names and stats remain public information

The Supreme Court rejected Major League Baseball's appeal regarding the rights of fantasy baseball leagues to use players' names and statistics without paying a licensing fee.

MLB relied on a concept called "right of publicity" as a counter to fantasy websites' claims to their First Amendment right to use data that is readily available in the public domain.

The First Amendment won (as it almost always should, in my opinion).

Read the details here.

This is good news, by the way. This keeps the costs of running a fantasy website down, which keeps the supply high, which keeps the price down. I've only ever played free fantasy baseball because I'm a cheap bastard, and it would be very disappointing if it got to the point where mlb.com was the only site offering free fantasy baseball since their platform sucks.