forevercloud3000 said:
smbu2000 said:
forevercloud3000 said:
Although he may not of had a PS commercial all year, regardless these clauses last several years after work has stopped. Any smart company would place it for a considerable amount of time, 4 years maybe. Shit, my modeling contract says I can't work for a competitor in the same state for 2 years after.
You guys make it sound like they put somekind of huge restriction on his ability to work. These clauses can only say he cannot work for a direct competitor in the same field......of which there are only TWO.....NINTENDO and MS. So out of the millions of other companies in the world he still finds himself being used by one of them....coincidence? No. It cannot be a coincidence that one of those two would want to use him in advertising their console when last year he was advertising PS, do you guys not see why Sony would want these taken down immediately and him sued? |
He made the commercials for Bridgestone, you know the tire maker. I guess they are a direct competitor to Sony who also makes tires...
BTW they are not suing him for Breach of Contract they are suing for Trademark Infringement.
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The fact the commercial is a Bridgestone one becomes totally irrelevant when BS is advertising a Wii! Jerry =Bridgestone = Wii, Jerry = Wii. And that is a trademark Infringement problem, he is their "Intelectual Property" as Kevin Buttler, and that commercial infringed on that.
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The actor Jerry Lambert is Sony's Intellectual Property? The fictional character "Keven Butler" is Sony's property, but the actor Jerry Lambert is not. They may look the same (at least until Sony finds a new actor), but they are not the same. The mannerisms, etc. used by Jerry in the Bridgestone commercial were completely different from the fictional charcter "Kevin Butler"s mannerisms.
Besides that, this was filed in California and non-compete agreements are generally not valid in the State of California.
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/noncompete-agreements-are-also-nonlegal-in-california/Content?oid=1878905
