Industry Expert Option #2

Legal liabilities are something all companies must be careful about. Legal liabilities come in many different forms there’s product, financial, emotional and many more. Learning about the types of legal liabilities that could affect your company is imperative when starting a business. All future business owners should have an understanding of the different types of liabilities out there. The types of legal liabilities that exist can affect a company in so many ways is can cost them hundreds, thousands, millions or even more dollars or it can even shut a business down! All future business owners should take legal Liabilities seriously; it’s something to be researched thoroughly. A business owner not understanding legal liabilities could cause their business to fail. You shouldn’t start a company if you don’t know the legal liabilities that could come up against. A legal liability I could face in my future business is false statement of fact as I plan on making television shows, if I saw something that is incorrect it could be a legal liability against my company, someone could sue claiming it affected them in someway. Another big liability I could face and really any business could is contractual liabilities. Contracts can have such tricky wording that you somehow could end up breeching the contract by mistake getting your company sued. You should really make sure you understand what you are signing whenever you sign a contract. You should always read it over thoroughly getting a lawyer to help you is strongly advised. Legal liabilities are always something you should be careful with. It is always something you should understand and research. To begin a company you should have an understanding of all the many legal liabilities that you could end up facing before you actually start the business. To understand liabilities better here are some videos for your enjoyment:

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Industry Liabilities

My first story is from the Hollywood reporter in an article titled “Fox TV can’t escape $28 million defamation lawsuit brought by judge” the story talks about how for is being sued for defamation by an Illinois judge. Fox did a four-part expose into the lazy work habits of Illinois judges and made the mistake of actually naming one, this is the one who is suing the network. My opinion on this is that should have been smart and just not said the judges’ name. It would have made the whole thing much less messy and there would be no lawsuit to even speak of.

            The second story I’m posting is from the same website. The article is about a producer-director suing his movie distributor because they allegedly stole money from him. The producer-director, Bryan Michael Stoller made the movie called First Dog about and orphan boy who finds the presidents dog. Stoller claims that the distributor of his movie sold it for less than it was worth and kept all the profits. Stoller claims that he never got paid for making the movie or giving any of the money the movie profited. My opinion on this article is that I believe the producer-director Stoller, I bet the distributor didn’t pay him you hear about these kinds of things happening all the time and I bet the studio thought this movie was small enough that they could get away with it.

My final article is also from the Hollywood reporter. This story is called “Fox’s American Horror Story VS. Zombie Boy legal spat settled”. The article talks about how body art model Rick Genest sued the hit television show when one of the characters was shown in body art similar to his. Genest claims that he has his bodywork copy-righted. The suit has been settled and both parties have agreed not to discuss the terms. My opinion on this is that I find it ridiculous that Genest can copy right his tattoos, his tattoos are of a skeleton. I don’t personally understand how someone can copyright an image as common as a skeleton.

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Actor sued for leaving playstation advertisement for nintendo wii

The PlayStation Company is suing actor Jerry Lambert because he left their advertisement to promote Nintendo. Jerry Lambert play fiction PlayStation CEO “Kevin Butler” in PlayStation ads for years but, recently he jumped shipped from PlayStation and left to promote Nintendo the even crazier part is the commercials are practically the same. Over all this was just a terrible idea on Nintendo and Lamberts part, it is one thing to reuse an actor but to reuse your rivaled companies idea almost to the letter? It does not make much sense yes the “Kevin Butler” commercials were popular but that is just odd and confusing to see him promoting Nintendo I am sure when most people see the commercial they immediately assume it is for PlayStation, which is poor planning on a rival companies part. PlayStation also had that character trademarked and while Nintendo did not actually say the characters name it was obvious it was meant to be said character. This is the biggest reason PlayStation is suing because it will confuse customers. I personally think this is something Nintendo should have thought about the last thing I would want as a major corporation is for my advertisement to seem like it is the advertisement for another company. When someone sees my add I would want them to instantly think of my company not start the advertisement believing it was for my rival. This whole debacle just seems to be really poor planning on Nintendo’s side. I can’t imagine why they thought it was a good idea to copy their rival’s advertisements so closely to promote their product. This is a court battle I believe Sony will easily win, the character is so obviously Sony’s and the commercial idea is clearly Sony’s as well. The idea to copy Sony’s promotion just doesn’t make any sense on Nintendo’s side. Maybe the whole thing was some sort of publicity stunt.

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Robert Kirkman settles lawsuit.

                      As someone who is a very loyal fan of Robert Kirkmans I have followed this case rather closely. The case was simple, Micheal “Tony” Moore claimed he owned half the writes to The Walking Dead as he is a previous co worker of Robert Kirkmans. I remember when I first heard of this case I found it very silly as Tony Moore is indeed a former co-worker, he left Robert Kirkman and all his titles previous to The Walking Dead becoming a hit tv show. To me is seemed that Tony Moore was just upset he left before Robert Kirkman made a hit and that Tony Moore just wanted some of that money. Recently however they both announced that they settled the case to “mutual benefit” though they both say they will not be discussing the terms of the settlement, so It seems as though Tony Moore will be getting some of The Walking Dead’s money. I suppose it is fair as he did work with Robert Kirkman on pervious projects, thought I am not sure how much work he put into said projects I however am sure that he did not put in near as much work as Kirkman and claiming that he owns part of the rights is still very ridiculous to me. Though is seems Robert Kirkman feels Tony Moore deserves something as he did settle out of court with him of course we will never really know what Tony Moore got from this deal as they have stated they won’t talk about it publicly. I am happy to find that the case is closed and that Robert Kirkman can move on with his life and hopefully Tony Moore won’t come back to bother him about any more rights he claims to be entitled too. With this case settled I am glad Robert Kirkman can put this in his past and clear his mind to work on The Walking dead and his many comic titles in peace.As someone who is a very loyal fan of Robert Kirkmans I have followed this case rather closely. The case was simple, Micheal “Tony” Moore claimed he owned half the writes to The Walking Dead as he is a previous co worker of Robert Kirkmans. I remember when I first heard of this case I found it very silly as Tony Moore is indeed a former co-worker, he left Robert Kirkman and all his titles previous to The Walking Dead becoming a hit tv show. To me is seemed that Tony Moore was just upset he left before Robert Kirkman made a hit and that Tony Moore just wanted some of that money. Recently however they both announced that they settled the case to “mutual benefit” though they both say they will not be discussing the terms of the settlement, so It seems as though Tony Moore will be getting some of The Walking Dead’s money. I suppose it is fair as he did work with Robert Kirkman on pervious projects, thought I am not sure how much work he put into said projects I however am sure that he did not put in near as much work as Kirkman and claiming that he owns part of the rights is still very ridiculous to me. Though is seems Robert Kirkman feels Tony Moore deserves something as he did settle out of court with him of course we will never really know what Tony Moore got from this deal as they have stated they won’t talk about it publicly. I am happy to find that the case is closed and that Robert Kirkman can move on with his life and hopefully Tony Moore won’t come back to bother him about any more rights he claims to be entitled too. With this case settled I am glad Robert Kirkman can put this in his past and clear his mind to work on The Walking dead and his many comic titles in peace.

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