Take-Two Interactive & Visual Concepts Sued By Tattoo Artists

[RonRac1]

Take-Two should just follow the process that EA did to secure the tattoo's in Live, because l don't hear about EA being sued for Live's tattoo's. Or they can just adjust the tattoo's like EA has done, for example look at Jr Smith's neck tattoo on Live it resembles his tatt but it ain't his actual tatt. If they can't get the rights they should just adjust them. That's all I'm saying...

[DatIsraeliGuy]

How serious is this? Should we be worried 2k will end up like THQ or is it not that bad?

[ksuttonjr76]

Quote: Originally Posted by DatIsraeliGuy

How serious is this? Should we be worried 2k will end up like THQ or is it not that bad?

Good discussion, but I'm not that worried about it. I'm expecting to see changed tattoos in NBA 2K17. Personally, I'm kinda looking forward to the "Before and After" thread that will probably be created, lol.

[redsox4evur]

Quote: Originally Posted by ksuttonjr76

Good discussion, but I'm not that worried about it. I'm expecting to see changed tattoos in NBA 2K17. Personally, I'm kinda looking forward to the "Before and After" thread that will probably be created, lol.

Here I'll summarize it a couple quick sentences.

Before: These are greedy *** pigs. After you get a tattoo it's your property.

After being taken out: This is complete bull**** I'm not going to buy this game. How can they call this a sim when the tattoos aren't real.

[HealyMonster]

Does the rocks tattoo artist get a waiver for every time he posts a picture on Instagram or goes shirtless in Ballers?

This is ridiculous. I hope 2k fights it and wins. If I go pay someone to put a tattoo on my body, it is mine, it is part of my body. If someone else pays me or pays my organization for me to appear in something, they are buying me, all of me, every part of me, not me minus my tattoos. Absolutely ridiculous.

[redsox4evur]

Quote: Originally Posted by HealyMonster

Does the rocks tattoo artist get a waiver for every time he posts a picture on Instagram or goes shirtless in Ballers? This is ridiculous. I hope 2k fights it and wins. If I go pay someone to put a tattoo on my body, it is mine, it is part of my body. If someone else pays me or pays my organization for me to appear in something, they are buying me, all of me, every part of me, not me minus my tattoos. Absolutely ridiculous.

2K ain't going to win man...there has already precedence set when EA lost the case to Ricky Williams' artist. So they either settle out of court, most likely, or go to trial and lose all 1.1 million.

[24ct]

The Rocks tattoo guy isn't apart of the company suing so that's irrelevant. An instagram post isn't the same as a videogame or DVD cover that's being sold. I understand what you're getting at, but that's really extreme and I think you're missing the whole point these guys have a case.

Just because you buy a tattoo doesn't mean you own the design. You purchased a service. They're not saying they own the skin. They own the design. Especially if it's custom drawn. They own a part of the design if you drew it and they did it for you. It's just like a song. Art is art by definition here. If someone writes a song and I record it, it's not 100% mine. If we collab on something it's not 100% of anyone's by law. Unless it's in writing.

I know it's dumb this is over a tattoo but it's not hard to understand.

[Goffs]

Look at the bright side guys...with one less detail for the art team to worry about they can finally concentrate on players that were not scanned.