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Darc Requiem on 25 June 2013
darkshadow23 said:

@noname2200

This has been going on for years. The NCAA also sells jerseys with the number and name of players on the back and the players get no money from the profits made off of those jerseys. Nothing has been done. I've been hearing about the court cases for years but nothing yet. Also note that with these games there is NO DOUBT that they used the players likeness. Every single player in the game can be linked to their real life player. They have their number, position, and their skills set to how they perform in real life. Ellie in The Last of Us is no where near as close as that. Different hair color, eye color, skin color, freckles, scar... Face strucure is similar but that is all.


Ed O'Bannon has a lawsuit that has been going on for some time. It looks like it will change the issues with EA getting free reign over NCAA  player likenesses.



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darkshadow23 on 25 June 2013
Darc Requiem said:
darkshadow23 said:

@noname2200

This has been going on for years. The NCAA also sells jerseys with the number and name of players on the back and the players get no money from the profits made off of those jerseys. Nothing has been done. I've been hearing about the court cases for years but nothing yet. Also note that with these games there is NO DOUBT that they used the players likeness. Every single player in the game can be linked to their real life player. They have their number, position, and their skills set to how they perform in real life. Ellie in The Last of Us is no where near as close as that. Different hair color, eye color, skin color, freckles, scar... Face strucure is similar but that is all.


Ed O'Bannon has a lawsuit that has been going on for some time. It looks like it will change the issues with EA getting free reign over NCAA  player likenesses.

My point is this: Look at how difficult it was for them to get this done. They were obviously using the players likeness but it has taken years for them to get this far and we are still not sure if they are going to win.



noname2200 on 25 June 2013
darkshadow23 said:

My point is this: Look at how difficult it was for them to get this done. They were obviously using the players likeness but it has taken years for them to get this far and we are still not sure if they are going to win.

Lawsuits proceed glacially, and doubly so when one side is interested in dragging out the proceedings; class actions go on even longer. My cases are largely simple affairs, but even those routinely take at least ten months to get heard.

Point is, it's no surprise there's been no definitive legal precedent set yet. But it'll happen, and relatively "soon" (in legal terms).



darkshadow23 on 25 June 2013
noname2200 said:
darkshadow23 said:

My point is this: Look at how difficult it was for them to get this done. They were obviously using the players likeness but it has taken years for them to get this far and we are still not sure if they are going to win.

Lawsuits proceed glacially, and doubly so when one side is interested in dragging out the proceedings; class actions go on even longer. My cases are largely simple affairs, but even those routinely take at least ten months to get heard.

Point is, it's no surprise there's been no definitive legal precedent set yet. But it'll happen, and relatively "soon" (in legal terms).


So do you believe that if Ellen were to take this issue to court that she could win, even though there are several differences between Ellen and Ellie (as mentioned in previous post)?



noname2200 on 26 June 2013
darkshadow23 said:
noname2200 said:
darkshadow23 said:

My point is this: Look at how difficult it was for them to get this done. They were obviously using the players likeness but it has taken years for them to get this far and we are still not sure if they are going to win.

Lawsuits proceed glacially, and doubly so when one side is interested in dragging out the proceedings; class actions go on even longer. My cases are largely simple affairs, but even those routinely take at least ten months to get heard.

Point is, it's no surprise there's been no definitive legal precedent set yet. But it'll happen, and relatively "soon" (in legal terms).


So do you believe that if Ellen were to take this issue to court that she could win, even though there are several differences between Ellen and Ellie (as mentioned in previous post)?

I've only dabbled in patents, and done only casual research into copyright, but I'd say she's less likely to succeed than not. But it wouldn't be a frivolous claim, and failure isn't predestined.



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Screamapillar on 26 June 2013

Ellen Page thinks too highly of herself, and she loves being in the news, especially when it's of her own making. Obnoxious.



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Player1x3 on 26 June 2013
noname2200 said:
darkshadow23 said:
noname2200 said:
darkshadow23 said:

My point is this: Look at how difficult it was for them to get this done. They were obviously using the players likeness but it has taken years for them to get this far and we are still not sure if they are going to win.

Lawsuits proceed glacially, and doubly so when one side is interested in dragging out the proceedings; class actions go on even longer. My cases are largely simple affairs, but even those routinely take at least ten months to get heard.

Point is, it's no surprise there's been no definitive legal precedent set yet. But it'll happen, and relatively "soon" (in legal terms).


So do you believe that if Ellen were to take this issue to court that she could win, even though there are several differences between Ellen and Ellie (as mentioned in previous post)?

I've only dabbled in patents, and done only casual research into copyright, but I'd say she's less likely to succeed than not. But it wouldn't be a frivolous claim, and failure isn't predestined.





darkshadow23 on 26 June 2013
Player1x3 said:
noname2200 said:
darkshadow23 said:
noname2200 said:
darkshadow23 said:

My point is this: Look at how difficult it was for them to get this done. They were obviously using the players likeness but it has taken years for them to get this far and we are still not sure if they are going to win.

Lawsuits proceed glacially, and doubly so when one side is interested in dragging out the proceedings; class actions go on even longer. My cases are largely simple affairs, but even those routinely take at least ten months to get heard.

Point is, it's no surprise there's been no definitive legal precedent set yet. But it'll happen, and relatively "soon" (in legal terms).


So do you believe that if Ellen were to take this issue to court that she could win, even though there are several differences between Ellen and Ellie (as mentioned in previous post)?

I've only dabbled in patents, and done only casual research into copyright, but I'd say she's less likely to succeed than not. But it wouldn't be a frivolous claim, and failure isn't predestined.




lol 22 pages.



Talal on 26 June 2013

 

 



darkshadow23 on 26 June 2013

Here we go: http://www.videogamelookalikes.com/