Pele Sues Samsung For $30,000,000 Over Using His Image And Likeness Without Permission In Football Ad

Pele

 

Legendary Brazilian footballer, Pele, has filed a $30,000,000 lawsuit against tech giant Samsung for illegally using his image and likeness in a newspaper ad, by employing a look alike. Upon looking at the photo in the ad that ran in the New York Times, you immediately think it is Pele. This is made more apparent by the fact it is a football ad. 

 

Samsung football ad deceives people into thinking that's football legend Pele and he has endorsed their product

 

Samsung was in negotiations with Pele to use his image in 2013, but the deal broke down. Pele's lawsuit reveals Samsung, "never obtained the right to use Pele's identity in any manner or format." It is unlawful to use someone's image as a means of misleading the public into thinking they have endorsed your product or event. 

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Pele: Soccer legend files $30m lawsuit against Samsung for 'improperly using his image'

The advertisment appeared in the 'New York Times' last year 

Tuesday 29 March 2016 - He was the man who made the beautiful game even more beautiful. Now, the Brazilian soccer legend Pele is suing Samsung, claiming that the electronics firm improperly used his identity. The lawsuit has been filed by the former soccer star’s lawyer, Fred Sperling, and alleges that the firm used a Pele look-alike in an October advertisement for televisions in the New York Times newspaper. 

While the advertisement did not name the 75-year-old, the elderly black man featured in “very closely resembles” Pele, the lawsuit says. The lawsuit says the ad will confuse consumers and hurt the value of his endorsement rights. It seeks $30m in damages, the Associated Press added. Pele has endorsement deals with other companies, including Volkswagen, Subway, Emirates and Procter and Gamble. 

The lawsuit says the ad appeared after Samsung broke off negotiations to use Pele’s image in 2013. Specifically, the lawsuit said the South Korean firm pulled out of negotiations at the last minute “and never obtained the right to use Pele's identity in any manner or in any format”... 

http://www.independent.co.uk

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Rush Limbaugh Says Hollywood Based A Character In Batman's 'The Dark Knight Rises' On Mitt Romney

A still from the "Dark Knight" with Christian Bale and Anne Hathaway

Rush Limbaugh and the Judiciary Report seldom agree, but the site knows better regarding Hollywood unlawfully basing roles on real people's lives, violating individuals' "Right Of Publicity" as ascribed by the law. This time it's 'The Dark Knight Rises' by Warner Bros., starring Christian Bale and Anne Hathaway. 

Warner Bros has been sued in legal cases for illegally using real people's lives and names or very similar versions of their names for film characters, as they are lazy and uncreative. The reviews have been so bad for "The Dark Knight Rises" movie review website Rotten Tomatoes had to suspend all comments on the film. 

Limbaugh stated of 'The Dark Knight Rises', "Have you heard this new movie, the Batman movie, what is it, The Dark Knight Lights Up or whatever the name is? That's right, Dark Knight Rises. Lights up, same thing. Do you know the name of the villain in this movie? Bane.

The villain in The Dark Knight Rises is named Bane, B-a-n-e. What is the name of the venture capital firm that Romney ran and around which there's now this make-believe controversy? Bain. The movie has been in the works for a long time. The release date's been known, summer 2012, for a long time. Do you think that it is accidental that the name of the really vicious, fire-breathing, four-eyed whatever it is villain in this movie is named Bane?" [Link]

The lawsuits and claims against Warner Bros. by different individuals became particularly contentious, as not only did the company break the law with said conduct, they also maliciously added defamatory and disgusting items to the scripts in question, causing real people offensive and damage. Speaking of that, Kabbalah member, Chuck Lorre, is one of the biggest offenders in this regard and he coincidentally works for Warner Bros., who released the 'The Dark Knight Rises.' 

When a deranged Hollywood producer starts using verbatim hacked emails, computer hacking and phone hacking, among other things, as seen in the phone hacking scandal in London, to base his television characters on (see: television show "The Big Bang Theory") it's time for that depraved pervert to go to prison. Look for a terrible scandal to come out of that show. Hollywood truly is the sickest place on the planet.

Porn Star Peddling Alleged Tiger Woods Sex Tape

Tiger Woods

Porn star and drug addict, Devon James, is peddling a Tiger Woods sex tape, for a minimum fee of $350,000. She has been meeting with companies, in a bid to tie up a deal, which would add to the golfer's woes. That money would end up in her nostrils.

Previously, James kept insisting Tiger Woods is the father of her 9-year-old son, prompting her mother to come forward and discredit the story. James wants to be rich and famous and views Woods as a means of obtaining said goal.

Devon James

Regardless of whether or not James' claims are true, it should be a felony to disclose or sell sex tapes or nude photos of anyone without their permission. It is unseemly and undignified. It is also a clear violation of privacy rights.

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Porn star hawking Tiger Woods 'sex tape'

September 30, 2010 - 9:00AM - A sex tape featuring Tiger Woods is reportedly being shopped around by US porn star Devon James, who claims the "explosive" film was made in 2008 during her two-and-a-half year affair with the champion golfer...

"The tape is 62 minutes long and 37 minutes of it is us having sex," James told RadarOnline.com. "This sex tape is worth at least $350,000. "If Vivid won't pay enough, we're going to self-release the tape . . . It's going to be the bomb," reported RadarOnline.

http://www.smh.com.au

Lady Gaga Exposed As A Fraud

The mother of late indie singer, Lina Morgana, has released a very telling video to YouTube, comparing photographs of her late daughter, with rip-offs her old friend, Lady GaGa went on to release. The video shows Lady GaGa and her producer, Rob Fusari, who was Morgana's writing partner, to be complete frauds.

As written on the site previously, Morgana killed herself a few years ago, by jumping off the roof of a New York hotel, which is regrettable as suicide is not the answer. A year later, Lady GaGa, released her debut and ripped-off the deceased singer's image and persona. Time will tell if she stole music Morgana had written as well.

It's very sad and pathetic, what some do to be famous. As much as crazy Madonna would like to take credit for Lady Gaga and every other female singer in the world, when she can't even sing, the newcomer's debut is nothing like her.

The Judiciary Report can see how Lady GaGa ripped off Morgana and there are visible traces of David Bowie and Grace Jones in her debut as well. But the thing is, Jones and Bowie are famous and living. Morgana never got her chance at stardom and it was patently wrong, creepy and morbid, for Lady GaGa to assume a dead woman's life, exploiting it for fame and fortune. She has serious mental problems to have done such a thing. You are a fraud.

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Rick Ross Sued For Stealing Name And Image

Rick Ross

Miami rapper, Rick Ross, has been sued by notorious drug dealer, incarcerated felon, "Freeway" Ricky Ross. The Miami MC famously took the drug dealer's name, image and likeness and used it to launch a fairly successful rap career.

The only problem for the rapper is in America there is such a thing as image rights. "Freeway" Ricky Ross is entitled to what is known as the Right Of Publicity, meaning he and only he, has the right to profit from his name and image. When he has passed, that right goes to his heirs.

To use his real life image as a persona for a rap career and credibility, is a violation of his legal rights. You are an impersonator, pretending to be the real thing and in music that defeats the purpose of having credibility. As such, the cocaine trafficker has sued the Miami rapper.

"Freeway" Ricky Ross

Thus far, Judge Percy Anderson, has not granted an injunction barring the release of Ross' forthcoming album, but under the law, he owes the felon financial damages and should cease and desist exploiting his name and image for financial gain.

Under the circumstances, you cannot take someone's name and image and turn it into entertainment for profit. You are infringing on their life, which is illegal.

The damages are multiplied, as you are disseminating this work and persona not your own, all over the world, violating international image laws as well.

Side Bar: "Freeway" Ricky Ross appeared in the eye-opening documentary "American Drug War." He spoke about the CIA and Oliver North, as did numerous other individuals, from drug dealers to former DEA agents.

I still have not gotten over that documentary. It's pretty messed up when you find out the CIA flooded the streets of Compton, California with drugs they imported into America.

Lindsay Lohan Sues Over E*Trade Ad

Lindsay Lohan

Disgraced, one-time actress and Kabbalah cult member, Linday Lohan, has filed a $100,000,000 lawsuit against online brokerage, E*Trade, claiming they used her image and likeness without permission to defame her.

The ad features a toddler named “Lindsay” who is a "milkaholic." Lindsay Lohan is no longer known for acting, but for being an alcoholic and drug abuser. She is apparently contending the ad exploited her image as a wino.

There was no invasion of privacy, the similarities are not distinct enough and she overestimates her fading fame, hanging on to the deluded belief, everyone knows her by just one name "Lindsay."

How are they going to credibly prove her name is worth $100,000,000 when no one in Hollywood wants to even hire her. Furthermore, Lindsay is a very common name and the ad was done in jest, in the vein, pardon the pun, of a parody. Satire cases are tricky.

Just because she's blown all her money, on well, blow, doesn't mean she should try to score a payday off a vague, satirical commercial. This case will not be easy to prove and the lawsuit shall not exempt her from public jokes, due to the content of the commercial.

Lindsay Lohan sues over "milkaholic" E*Trade ad

Tue Mar 9, 2010 12:41pm EST - NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - The actress Lindsay Lohan has sued E*Trade Financial Corp for $100 million, saying a "milkaholic" baby girl who appeared in a recent commercial was modeled after her.

Lohan alleged that online brokerage's use in the ad the girl, also named Lindsay, improperly invoked her "likeness, name, characterization, and personality" without permission, violating her right of privacy.

In her lawsuit filed Monday in a Nassau County, New York state court, the 23-year-old actress sought $50 million of compensatory damages and $50 million of exemplary damages. She also demanded that E*Trade stop running the ad and turn over all copies to her...

"Lindsay" was in 2008 the 380th most popular name for newborn American girls, according to the U.S. Social Security Administration. That was down from 241th in 2004, when Lohan's popular film "Mean Girls" was released.

The E*Trade case is Lohan v. E*Trade Securities LLC, New York State Supreme Court, Nassau County, No. 004579/2010.

http://www.reuters.com