Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC v. Bridgestone Americas Inc

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fillet said:

It became clear with this post after  the 3 or 4 before that you are making an argument to fit your decision. Not looking at the situation, coming to a conclusion based on points that can be argued.

Can you provide anything solid to show what you are saying is true apart from your gut feeling. My thoughts are quite the oppoiste of yours. For example, you say that Jerry can advertise anywhere he likes apart from a competing games console? How do you know that is the case? Sony are a diversified company, what if he was advertising, let's say basically any electronic device ever made (since they would be competing with Sony), along with maybe a film, considering Sony has a film studio, or maybe a financial product, considering Sony has a finance business... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony#Business_units

So that's 1 point I'm interested in hearing your view on, another would be about the "timed guidline". Now, Kowenicki has mentioned that these things from his own actual experience are quite rare and can't last longer than 6 months from end of use. Considering Jerry hasn't portrayed his character in a Sony advertisment for at least 12 months, that's another point.

I don't know of any finite specifics of this case, none of us really do and we wont till its end. We were discussing the simple "ability" for Sony to pull out a law suit on Jerry and we were making guesses at why untill someone posted Sony's official statment which just so happened to be almost verbatim what I said previously.

I have some personal experience dealing with similar contractual obligations with my modeling career. Basically had an entire conversation about it with my Modeling Agent Tracy Stern on it and she gave me some fair insight about how that works. I am no expert and I don't claim to be, but It appears that some of you all's "fight the corperate machine" mentality is blinding you from what is or isn't possible. The fact that it is even still pursuing it shows that they do have some ground to stand on and make this case.