NBA2K developers getting sued over using player tattoos in game..

[So-Chi]

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.

This is a slippery slope... So If I get something added on to it from another artist, can I be sued by the first one for destroying it?

 

[KushSkywalker]

Here's an easy way to understand copyright laws...
Is the idea yours? Did you create it? Did you pay for the rights to the idea? If the answer is NO to any of those then you don't own it and you can be sued for using it.
Technically the coli could be sued by photographers who took the pictures of all our smilies since we profit from their use.

 

[Brosef]

This is the country where a woman sued McDonald's for burning her when she spilled her coffee on herself even though it had a warning label on it. We have a guy here who failed to catch a boomerang, got his in the face with it, sued himself, and was awarded $300,000 for the lawsuit. This is not surprising

no fukkin way

had to look it up

FALSE: What Goes Around, Litigates Around

never happened

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

no fukkin way

had to look it up

FALSE: What Goes Around, Litigates Around

never happened

Damn for real? This was so stupid I was hoping it was real

 

[Momentum]

#NoInk gang winning

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

#NoInk gang winning

I really really hate needles man . Couldn't sit in that chair even if I wanted to

 

[Illuminatos]

The eight infringed-on designs include a child's portrait and script scrolls with clouds and doves on LeBron James' forearms

So ya'll tryna profit off a tattoo of another man's child?

 

[Darealtwo1]

lol how can you sue over this? If i take a picture of kobe with his tats and post it can they sue over that?

If a barber cuts a certain way and you depict it in a video game can you sue over that?

. The beard is the No. 1 thing. He leaves the top up to me. I leave him less bald. He’s my guy. He’s my hardest haircut. He has good hair. You have to cut it right.”

LeBron James' personal barber dishes on the NBA star's mysterious hairline

LeBron James' Barber Weighed in on His Client's Hair, Said It's All-Natural

don't give him ideas

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

I'm implying that since images are already digitally manipulated what is the distinction between one form of manipulation and another.

I say that to say this, can't it be claimed that the work of an artist on the body of individual x is now part of the person? And that whatever methods are used to reproduce an image of the individual, the goal is still to reproduce the individual.

If a surgeon performs a special and distinct technique of rhinoplasty and a digital artist recreates an image of said face with nose in-tact, can the doctor sue that his work has been copied?

This seems very petty to me.

you are missing one VERY important thing

COPYRIGHTING THE shyt


you listing all these ideas... none of which, you have explained, when the doctor, face slicer, etc has gone on down to the copyright office and submitted his work



the people who are suing did just that.... they drew a pic... then sent it in to the copyright office... then got approval and a legal document saying you own this drawing.... along with a full list of ways they own it and also do not own it



so no... taking a pic of the person... who you obviously licensed to have that art, is not going to fall under the law


but taking that art, and putting it on A FAKE PLAYER IN A GAME FOR SALE, obviously does

same if they took that art and put it on a shirt

or took that art and put it on another person... which is the reason it's protected... or i could just steal anybody's random art, and then charge $5000 to tattoo it on other people, even though i never even drew the shyt.. and i'm taking money out the pocket of the guy who originally drew it




why is this so hard to understand? yes you own the tattoo on your body

no nba 2k does not own the right to recreate this on a fukking computer man and sell it

 

[JahBuhLun]

Because that artist at the concert isn't recreating the tattoo and selling it. 2k is going in and copying that image onto the player. A picture or poster isn't recreating that image on an artist. It's already there.

Okay, gotcha, I was looking at this from a completely different perspective, so basically unless it's a concert poster where the artist or designer recreates the tattoos on lets say lil Wayne and sells the posters, everything else is "kosher" as they say...

 

[joeychizzle]

dumbest piece of 'news' I've seen all week.

 

[PortCityProphet]

Okay, gotcha, I was looking at this from a completely different perspective, so basically unless it's a concert poster where the artist or designer recreates the tattoos on lets say lil Wayne and sells the posters, everything else is "kosher" as they say...

this is different cause it's drawn. wayne could sue for using his likeness and technically the tat artist could too
now if you were on the public beach and took this pic

and wanted to sell this pic on tshirts, posters, cups, or whatever outside the concert (most venues and artist have specific rules about what can be sold in the venue) there's nothing anybody can do cause you own the pic of him. that's how paparazzi make their money

 

[1/2 Man 1/2 Hennessy]

He got 22,500 for a tat he already got payed for

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

that's like saying I bought a shirt but.... its not mine.

At best, these tattoo artist are advertising their work on ppl. That should be the end of it imo

If you bought a Basquiat for $10 M, it's still a Basquiat painting.... it may be your painting,but it's not a Jadillac painting because you are the one who paid for it.

 

[Denzel_Saucegton]

About time somebody stood up to 2k for making everything in the game worth something cost money....time to check them pockets