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Ex-American football player attempts to breathe life into failed lawsuit claiming Gears of War used his likeness

Mark192

'the differences were enough to satisfy the Transformative Use standard." and concerns of "a First Amendment right to place the image of the Dalai Lama or the Pope in a violent shoot-em-up game against their wishes."

Quite! /A/ Pope is fine, using /the/ Pope should need his permission.

Probably the sort of complaint a normal person could resolve with a glance at a couple of pictures.

Now lawyers are involved, years.

:rollseyes:

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