EA Faces Early Madden Designer Seeking Millions at Trial
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Electronic Arts Inc., whose Madden NFL videogame sales have exceeded $4 billion, sent its last royalty check to programmer Robin Antonick in 1992 for computer code he wrote for the earliest version of the game.
A lawyer for Antonick told a federal jury in San Francisco that, unbeknownst to his client, EA continued to use his code to develop later versions of Madden NFL, and never paid him.