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All Star
copyright laws are a fukking joke. Dont even own our own skin.
NBA2K developers getting sued over using player tattoos in game..
- Thread starter AtomicUse
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MegaTronBomb!
Power is in my hair nikka
You're thinking of it wrong.
When Mr. Cartoon does tattoos for famous people... they're still his tattoos.
Doesn't matter how much they paid for his work, it's still his work.
Copyright law is complicated. When someone buys a tat owned by someone else (as opposed to walking into the shop with their own idea), they're buying a one-time non-exclusive license to display that work on their bodies in perpetuity. However, what 2k has done is displayed the tat-makers work without permission. The medium (the digi-representations of players bodies) doesn't matter. They used their work commercially.
2K sports intellectual property people are buffoons and they're going to have to settle, because they can't win it.
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?
If a barber cuts a certain way and you depict it in a video game can you sue over that?
Tony D'Amato
It's all about the inches
When you sell it, it should belong tthe person that paid u. If I sell u property, I no longer have rights to that property. Whats next, a barber suing cuz his fade made the game? Are braiders gonna sue cuz braids are in the game
1/2OfDaBruinz
Banned
This
The Devil's Advocate
Call me Dad
this... kaep was the only one who went back and got written permission from his tattoo guy
everyone called EA dumb for requiring that shyt... like anybody would be dumb enough to sue
welcome to america motherfukkers
Mantis Toboggan M.D.
Drink wolf cola
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
mbewane
Knicks: 93 til infinity
What is this logic that tatoos remain the property of the tatoo artist 
How you pay for something and it's still not yours?
How you pay for something and it's still not yours?
JR Smith's artists are foaming at the mouth. They bout to get guapped 
It's American copyright laws. It's really big in video games, movies, art and digital shyt in general. If you read the terms of service there will be a line that says somethibg along the lines of your paying for the liscence to be able to use our product and we can tare that liscence away at our discretion.
These nikkas really are Django slaves