Manual Noriega Sues A Video Game....

Is Castro still alive?

Anyway, the US has laws about using a person's likeness for commercial purposes. It'll be interesting to see if Noriega has standing to sue under those laws.
 
Excuse me if I am not aware of the US libel law, but to have a reputation being damaged, should you not have a positive one to begin with ? In other word noriega can't sue because his reputation is pretty much bad, under-the-ground-deep bad ?
 
Actuallly the guy with a beard smoking a cigar in military uniform appears in all the Tropico games,though sometimes he is in green fatigues and sometimes in a fancy full dress uniform .
Yeah, I am a pretty big fan of the Tropico series.
 
I remember that we used to call that little spaceship that would fly across the top of the screen in Space Invaders "the Ayatollah"
 
Aepervius said:
Excuse me if I am not aware of the US libel law, but to have a reputation being damaged, should you not have a positive one to begin with ? In other word noriega can't sue because his reputation is pretty much bad, under-the-ground-deep bad ?
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It's not a libel suit. The US has laws regulating the use of someone's likeness for commercial purposes.
 
Lindsay Lohan tried it and it'll fail too.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tn-lindsay-lohan-gta-v-20140702-story.html

Lindsay Lohan would've had a better case if she said they were using her likeness for one of the game's crack whores.

Seriously on topic, parodies are fair game and video games have lots of parodies.

No fighting game is complete unless it has a clone of Bruce Lee.

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Kahalachan said:
Lindsay Lohan tried it and it'll fail too.
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If I remember correctly, which is unlikely, lass out of Deee-lite tried it and failed. Tom Waits tried it and succeeded. He did have a slightly stronger case, though.
 
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Kahalachan said:
Seriously on topic, parodies are fair game and video games have lots of parodies.
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The difference is that this wasn't a parody at all. Call of Duty generally takes itself very seriously, and this particular game (Black Ops 2) featured many real people - historical footage of Presidents Reagan and Bush, and Oliver North of Iran-Contra did the voicework for his own character. Manuel Noriega did not feature as a parody, he was a real person being portrayed as a real person. That he happens to have been a murderous dictator really has no bearing on his rights - they used his likeness without permission, and that's not generally allowed.
 
Rat said:
If I remember correctly, which is unlikely, lass out of Deee-lite tried it and failed. Tom Waits tried it and succeeded. He did have a slightly stronger case, though.
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I thought Waits' suits were about commercial use of his music?
 
TubbaBlubba said:
I thought Waits' suits were about commercial use of his music?
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As I understood it, after he turned down an advert, they hired someone to impersonate him, and it can't be disputed that he has a distinctive voice. They were copying his style of music as well, of course.
 
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