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New legal documents show that Sony is currently in the process of suing Jerry Lambert, aka Kevin Butler, for the Bridgestone Wii commercial. Sony is taking legal action against Bridgestone and Wildcat Creek, whose president is none other than Jerry Lambert. The end result of the proceedings could see the end of Jerry Lambert’s advertising career.

http://mynintendonews.com/2012/10/06/sony-suing-kevin-butler-for-bridgestone-wii-commercial/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook



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Lol instead of saying WHO CARES. Sony drops a cool guy makes some companies its enemy and shows how stupid they can be if they really want to......

Seriously I never was a Sony fan (I owns Sony consoles but I dont really care about Sony) but I liked Kevin Butler.

I dont care if the guy made an ad for another company. Seriously its not like the actor is owned by Sony and If Sony seriously added something like " DO NEVER MAKE ADS THAT IN SOMEWAY INVOLVE OUR COMPETITION EVEN THO WE CONSTANTLY SAID THEY ARE NO COMPETITION BECAUSE WE WILL SUE YOU"  its really sad....

Whats wrong with this world lol.



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bad move again Sony



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JazzB1987 said:
Lol instead of saying WHO CARES. Sony drops a cool guy makes some companies its enemy and shows how stupid they can be if they really want to......

Seriously I never was a Sony fan (I owns Sony consoles but I dont really care about Sony) but I liked Kevin Butler.

I dont care if the guy made an ad for another company. Seriously its not like the actor is owned by Sony and If Sony seriously added something like " DO NEVER MAKE ADS THAT IN SOMEWAY INVOLVE OUR COMPETITION EVEN THO WE CONSTANTLY SAID THEY ARE NO COMPETITION BECAUSE WE WILL SUE YOU"

Whats wrong with this world lol.

Another side of the arugement is.

 

When the Bridgestone/Wii ad came out, EVERYONE instantly said It's Kevin Butler!!!! I seem to recall trying to tell people his name is Jerry Lambert not KB. Why? Because in The advert, they made no attempts to differenciate the Bridgestone character to Kevin Butler. Thereby playing off the clear success of the KB angle without paying any acknowledgement to Sony's IP.



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Ajescent said:
JazzB1987 said:
Lol instead of saying WHO CARES. Sony drops a cool guy makes some companies its enemy and shows how stupid they can be if they really want to......

Seriously I never was a Sony fan (I owns Sony consoles but I dont really care about Sony) but I liked Kevin Butler.

I dont care if the guy made an ad for another company. Seriously its not like the actor is owned by Sony and If Sony seriously added something like " DO NEVER MAKE ADS THAT IN SOMEWAY INVOLVE OUR COMPETITION EVEN THO WE CONSTANTLY SAID THEY ARE NO COMPETITION BECAUSE WE WILL SUE YOU"

Whats wrong with this world lol.

Another side of the arugement is.

 

When the Bridgestone/Wii ad came out, EVERYONE instantly said It's Kevin Butler!!!! I seem to recall trying to tell people his name is Jerry Lambert not KB. Why? Because in The advert, they made no attempts to differenciate the Bridgestone character to Kevin Butler. Thereby playing off the clear success of the KB angle without paying any acknowledgement to Sony's IP.


Well isnt kevin Butler now "back" at Sony?  So this could either mean  Nintendo was shitty and he decided he should come back OR  He was a double agent and was spying for sony and this would also show that Nintend ohas no security or whatever.

I dont really see a problem here. I mean I watched the commercial twice  after someone posted it on VG  because it never aired in my country.  I thought it was funny and thats it.  I mean the person there is clearly not Kevin Butler  he acts totally differen he is talking differently and seems to be a Bridgestone employee not a Nintendo one  So I see no real problem  ;)

I mean isnt this a Bridgestone commercial? I dont think Nintendo asked Bridgestone to steal Kevin Butler etc...

The only negative thing I can imagine is that people would say LOOK SONY IS SENDING EMPLOYEES TO NINTENDO / TEST THEIR GAMES TO COPY.  But seriously who would think this in a bridgestone ad lol



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they have the right to sue. think about the fans as well



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kowenicki said:
Already posted. But funny this time too.


didnt bother to check :)



If he wasn't under contract I can't see how Sony can win this. He wasn't portraying Kevin Butler in this ad.



nice one Sony



Ajescent said:
JazzB1987 said:
Lol instead of saying WHO CARES. Sony drops a cool guy makes some companies its enemy and shows how stupid they can be if they really want to......

Seriously I never was a Sony fan (I owns Sony consoles but I dont really care about Sony) but I liked Kevin Butler.

I dont care if the guy made an ad for another company. Seriously its not like the actor is owned by Sony and If Sony seriously added something like " DO NEVER MAKE ADS THAT IN SOMEWAY INVOLVE OUR COMPETITION EVEN THO WE CONSTANTLY SAID THEY ARE NO COMPETITION BECAUSE WE WILL SUE YOU"

Whats wrong with this world lol.

Another side of the arugement is.

 

When the Bridgestone/Wii ad came out, EVERYONE instantly said It's Kevin Butler!!!! I seem to recall trying to tell people his name is Jerry Lambert not KB. Why? Because in The advert, they made no attempts to differenciate the Bridgestone character to Kevin Butler. Thereby playing off the clear success of the KB angle without paying any acknowledgement to Sony's IP.


This is a stupid arguement.

There are certain actors that are totally connected to their role. Best example for me is Mr. Bean aka Mr. Atkinson. Whatever movie Atkinson is in, I call him Mr. Bean. I never heard that anybody sued him for playing in a movie where he made it not cristal clear that he is not Mr. Bean though.



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