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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