NBA2K developers getting sued over using player tattoos in game..
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PortCityProphet
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This is how to make it in America. They got a case.
And people wondered why Madden never put tattoos in games
SteelCitySoldier
TSC Fantasy Football Champion 2016
At least EA was smart enough to tell them to get waivers from the artists if they wanted them in game...2K gonna settle but they gonna pay
I always thought they had permission?
Kind of makes sense, when I get my custom tat, I'm going to buy the rights to that particular piece from the artist.
Kind of makes sense, when I get my custom tat, I'm going to buy the rights to that particular piece from the artist.
Happens all the time. Fighters in the UFC game don't have their tats because they don't have permission
Most people don't own their tattoos though. Unless you contributed to the creation of the tattoo, you're just paying for the right to display their artwork on your body.
A company that owns the right to tattoos on NBA players is suing Take-Two Interactive and Visual Concepts, makers of the popular video-game franchise "NBA2K," for graphically representing those tattoos on NBA players without its permission.
Solid Oak Sketches filed suit on Monday in New York federal court, saying that particular tattoos depicted on players in the recent game NBA2K16 was the company's copyrighted work.
The eight infringed-on designs include a child's portrait and script scrolls with clouds and doves on LeBron James' forearms and butterflies on Kobe Bryant's arm.
Solid Oak Sketches got the copyrights to most of the tattoos last year and, as evidenced by exhibits submitted in the lawsuit, had written letters to the video game company to make an arrangement so that the tattoos could be used in the game. Solid Oak offered to Take-Two a license to the tattoos for $1.1 million.
"It's clear that they knew that this was something that was to be negotiated," said Darren Heitner, whose firm, Heitner Legal, is co-representing the plaintiff.
Calls placed to representatives for Take-Two Interactive were not immediately returned.
This is not the first time a tattoo artist has sued a video-game maker for using his work on an athlete without permission. Tattoo artist Victor Escobedo was awarded $22,500 for his lion tattoo that was portrayed on UFC fighter Carlos Condit without his permission in THQ's "UFC Undisputed" game. Escobedo had originally asked for $4.1 million.
Worried that they might be party to a lawsuit, the NFL Players Association told players in 2014 that, in order for their tattoos to be represented on merchandise, including video games, they needed to get waivers from the artists.
All of Colin Kaepernick's tattoos were subsequently represented in Electronic Arts' "Madden 15" game when Kaepernick got permission from the two artists who did all the work on his body: Nes Andrion of Endless Ink in Reno, Nevada, and Orly Locquiao of Humble Beginnings in San Jose.
Heitner said it is assumed that, without waivers, the tattoo artist is the owner of the work even if it is put on an athlete's body.
Solid Oak Sketches filed suit on Monday in New York federal court, saying that particular tattoos depicted on players in the recent game NBA2K16 was the company's copyrighted work.
The eight infringed-on designs include a child's portrait and script scrolls with clouds and doves on LeBron James' forearms and butterflies on Kobe Bryant's arm.
Solid Oak Sketches got the copyrights to most of the tattoos last year and, as evidenced by exhibits submitted in the lawsuit, had written letters to the video game company to make an arrangement so that the tattoos could be used in the game. Solid Oak offered to Take-Two a license to the tattoos for $1.1 million.
"It's clear that they knew that this was something that was to be negotiated," said Darren Heitner, whose firm, Heitner Legal, is co-representing the plaintiff.
Calls placed to representatives for Take-Two Interactive were not immediately returned.
This is not the first time a tattoo artist has sued a video-game maker for using his work on an athlete without permission. Tattoo artist Victor Escobedo was awarded $22,500 for his lion tattoo that was portrayed on UFC fighter Carlos Condit without his permission in THQ's "UFC Undisputed" game. Escobedo had originally asked for $4.1 million.
Worried that they might be party to a lawsuit, the NFL Players Association told players in 2014 that, in order for their tattoos to be represented on merchandise, including video games, they needed to get waivers from the artists.
All of Colin Kaepernick's tattoos were subsequently represented in Electronic Arts' "Madden 15" game when Kaepernick got permission from the two artists who did all the work on his body: Nes Andrion of Endless Ink in Reno, Nevada, and Orly Locquiao of Humble Beginnings in San Jose.
Heitner said it is assumed that, without waivers, the tattoo artist is the owner of the work even if it is put on an athlete's body.
Wow... didn't know that... so even after paying, them muthafukkas still own the tats? Wow
MegaTronBomb!
Power is in my hair nikka
It wouldn't have added much to the game if we're being honest... but that's neither here nor there.
they did away with players helmets even being able to be knocked off, just cause it saved them the work of players hair being an extra task to re-create.
BeefWellingtonThe2nd
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Yeah, this has been happening in some sports games for a while now, it's kinda snowballed from one person doing it, so a bunch more idiots decided it'd be a great idea. I'm sure they'll ask for some obscene number which makes no sense whatsoever.
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Yep there it is.
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Yep there it is.