Take-Two Interactive can get a million dollars for tattoos in NBA 2K16

It turns out that tattoo designs can not just take and transfer to the game along with the images of famous athletes. Take-Two Interactive I somehow forgot about it, and now because of the basketball simulator NBA 2K16 Publisher can fly one million dollars.

Company Solid Oak Sketches owns rights to eight drawings, which are applied on the bodies of several basketball players in the game. Among them, for example, a children’s portrait on the inner left forearm Lebron James (Lebrong James), Crown with butterflies on the right biceps Kobe Bryanta (Kobe Bryant) and Scroll on the right shoulder Dendre Jordan Deedre Jordan). Advocate Solid Oak Sketches States that Take-Two perfectly knew about the copyrights of these tattoos, and indeed the plaintiff tried to contact with the publisher earlier. Now, with the owners of the designs, peace negotiations ended and intend to sue the creators NBA 2K16 1,144,000 dollars.

If you are suddenly interesting, then the full text of the complaint is located here. This, by the way, is not the first time when Irrodeli suffer from tattoos: in November 2012 half THQ got under the distribution for UFC undisputed 3, where they also showed patented drawings.