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Privacy Choices Continue Skip to main content Mobile Menu Teams Teams Fan Sites Forums Shows College College Football News College Football Player Rankings College Football Schedule College Football Scores College Football Rankings College Football Playoff College Basketball News Women's Sports NIL NIL News NIL Valuation NIL Deals Sports Business Transfer Portal Transfer Portal News NCAA Transfer Portal Transfer Portal Rankings Transfer Portal Team Rankings Recruiting Football Recruiting Basketball Recruiting Database Team Rankings Player Rankings Industry Comparison Commitments Recruiting Prediction Machine High School High School News Schools Rankings Scores Draft NFL Draft NFL Draft News Draft By Stars College Draft History NBA Draft NBA Draft News Pro NFL NASCAR NBA Sports Predictions About About On3 App Advertise Press FAQ Contact Join NowLogin Teams CFB Schedule HSFB Rankings AP Poll NIL Valuations Team Recruiting Rankings Search Search players Search 60% OFF- Special Offer Rivals + National — $19.99 for your first year Join Now On3 NIL Attorneys file motion to prevent CSC review of multimedia rights NIL deals Pete Nakos@PeteNakos 04/20/26 0 Share Share Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 Video 4 Video 5 Video 6 Keep Watching College Football Teams I TRUST The Most… Watch More Plaintiff attorneys in the House v. NCAA settlement have filed a motion requesting that the magistrate judge declare that school multimedia rights partners be exempt from the College Sports Commission’sNIL enforcement. Filed on Monday, the move comes after growing frustration in recent months over the CSC’s decisions. Deals would still be required to be submitted. Multimedia rights partners such as Learfield and Playfly have dealt with issues getting deals cleared. The CSC recently rejected a group of Nebraska deals because they violated a policy dubbed “warehousing,” when a multimedia rights partner purchases athletes’ NIL rights. Nebraska’s athletes have since moved to arbitration with the CSC. SUBSCRIBE to the On3 NIL and Sports Business Newsletter Sources have told On3 that the CSC is pinning too many deals on the “associated entity” term, which is used to describe deals facilitated by NIL collectives or schools’ boosters. The motion filed Monday would apply to multimedia partners “unless the party” paying for the athlete’s NIL is deemed an associated entity, which could complicate the interpretation of any change. “The CSC’s attempt to rewrite the Settlement, shoehorn MMRs and third-party sponsors into the definition of Associated Entities or Individuals, and anoint itself a roving police force with limitless authority over Class Members’ NIL deals, must be rejected,” the filing states. The motion also asks the magistrate judge to rule that third-party brand sponsors are not “associated entities” because a school was involved in arranging an NIL agreement between the brand and athlete. In a new data release by the CSC in March, associated contracts tied to schools’ sponsors and booster-operated companies made up 63% of all NIL agreements in the last two months. In total, the CSC said 711 deals worth $29.3 million have been reviewed and not cleared. Playfly Sports and Learfield deals that are facilitated with legitimate brands have also been slowed down by the clearinghouse in some instances and classified as associated-entity deals. “We’ve been applying the rules consistently across institutions; we’ve been applying the rules consistent with the settlement,” CSC CEO Bryan Seeley told On3 Monday night. “Until we’re ordered, it doesn’t change what we’re going to do. The timing of this motion was not a coincidence. This motion was filed shortly before an arbitration hearing that has been scheduled for later this month. In which the CSC was going to prove, conclusively, that a school’s multimedia rights partner was an associated entity. “What plaintiff’s counsel tried to do here is avoid the arbitration process that they agreed to in the settlement, and instead get the issue in front of the court in California with no facts attached to it. No information about what’s really going on on campus. And what’s really going on on campus, on many campuses, is that the schools’ multimedia rights partners are being directed by the schools to provide certain NIL payments to certain student athletes in order to recruit and retain those student-athletes, which makes those partners associated entities under the settlement.” Like this story 0 Share article RECOMMENDATIONS Curated by editors COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF How much Big Ten, SEC programs could gain from College Football Playoff expansion Ross Dellenger · 7h ON3 BASKETBALL Dana Altman addresses his struggles in NIL era, where Oregon ranks in Big Ten spending Thomas Goldkamp · 22h ON3 BASKETBALL Will Wade thrills LSU crowd with Lane Kiffin, NIL jokes as 2026-27 season gets set to begin Thomas Goldkamp · 1d Chris Holtmann took a lower salary in contract extension to help with DePaul's NIL, here's why Nick Schultz · 1d KEEP SCROLLING More from On3 NIL Tony Petitti, Big Ten 'optimistic' about Protect College Sports Act's future in House of Representatives Nick Schultz · 13m SCROLL More On3 NIL News Jim Phillips: ACC does not have 'unanimity' on Protect College Sports Act Nick Schultz · 2d ON3 FOOTBALL College Football TV Ratings: Tracking the most-watched games of the 2026 season Nick Schultz · 2d ON3 FOOTBALL College Football TV Ratings: Most-watched games of Week 5 Nick Schultz · 2d ON3 FOOTBALL Nick Saban links NIL, boosters to 33 college football coaches being fired after 2025-2026 season Alex Byington · 2d ON3 FOOTBALL Texas QB Arch Manning, mother star in new Humann commercial Nick Kosko · 2d Top 10 1. 01Hot Alabama-UGA game tracking to kick off as scheduled amidst storm 2. 02What the SEC and Big Ten can gain from 24-team CFP expansion 3. 03Jim Cantore: Weather could affect multiple SEC games 4. 04New Big Ten commish commits to tougher scheduling under 24-team CFP 5. 05OU dismisses true freshman receiver Expand Top 10 About On3AboutAdvertisersCareersContact SupportCustomer ServicePrivacy PolicyChildren's Privacy PolicyTerms of Service On3 ConnectTwitterFacebookInstagram The On3 App for college sports fans: © 2026 On3 Media, Inc. 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