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22 Apr 2024, 10:41 am by Eric Goldman
The Hayden jury verdict contrasts with the Orton case, where a jury awarded a tattoo artist $3,750 for depicting Orton and his tattoos in a videogame. [read post]
1 Dec 2023, 4:11 am by SHG
At the close of WWE’s annual “Survivor Series” Pay Per View, the babyface team of Randy Orton, Cody Rhodes, Jey Uso, Sami Zayn and Seth Rollins were all celebrating after their victory in WarGames, a brutal two-ring steel cage match designed by Cody’s father, “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes. [read post]
10 Oct 2023, 9:03 pm by renholding
I’d like to thank members of the SEC staff for their work on these final rules, including: Erik Gerding, Mellissa Duru, Ted Yu, Nicholas Panos, Valian Afshar, Elizabeth Murphy, Robert Errett, Chris Windsor, Anne Krauskopf, Katherine Bagley, Emma O’Hara, and Pearl Crawley in the Division of Corporation Finance; Megan Barbero, Bryant Morris, Dorothy McCuaig, Ken Alcé, David Russo, Rachel McKenzie, and Brooke Wagner in the Office of the General Counsel; Jessica Wachter, Lyndon… [read post]
28 Dec 2022, 11:20 am by Aaron Moss
Take-Two Interactive In September, after over four years of litigation, a Southern District of Illinois jury found that Take-Two’s realistic depiction of wrestler Randy Orton in the “WWE 2K” video game series infringed tattoo artist Catherine Alexander’s copyrights in Orton’s tattoos. [read post]
17 Oct 2022, 11:11 am by Brandon W. Clark
Alexander gave Orton the six tattoos in question between 2002 and 2008 and after Orton became a professional wrestler, the tattoos were digitally recreated in the WWE 2K16, WWE 2K17, and WWE 2K18 games. [read post]
13 Oct 2022, 10:00 am by Scott Hervey
Take Two argued that Alexander inked the tattoos at Orton’s request to reflect his personal expression whereas Take Two depicted the tattoos in WWE 2K to depict Orton realistically. [read post]
11 Oct 2022, 7:02 am by Eric Goldman
It’s great to see First Amendment limits on trademark claims, but that doesn’t extend to copyright claims–leading to troubling rulings like the Orton case, where one heavily tatted wrestler can single-handedly turn into an insurmountable rights thicket. [read post]
6 Oct 2022, 9:15 am by Eric Goldman
Alexander claimed that Take-Two Interactive infringed the tattoo designs she inked on her client, professional wrestler Randy Orton, when the company produced and distributed a video game featuring a realistic in-game depiction of Orton. [read post]
3 Oct 2022, 11:16 am by Jonathan Bailey
Alexander is responsible for some of the tattoos on WWE star Randy Orton. [read post]
3 Oct 2022, 8:33 am by Jonathan Bailey
Alexander is responsible for some of the tattoos on the professional wrestler Randy Orton. [read post]
2 Oct 2022, 5:12 pm by Aaron Moss
An Illinois federal jury awarded Catherine Alexander only $3,750 in damages for Take-Two Interactive and WWE’s use of tattoos she made for Randy Orton in their video games, but the implications of the ruling go much further. [read post]
26 Sep 2022, 12:19 am by Aaron Moss
Randy Orton Will Testify at Trial Randy Orton, who’s currently sidelined from wrestling with a back injury, will testify live as a witness at trial. [read post]
2 Jun 2022, 8:57 am by Eric Goldman
May 31, 2022) Prior Tattoo Copyright Blog Posts Depicting Randy Orton’s Tattoos in a Video Game Could Be Copyright Infringement–Alexander v. [read post]
17 Jun 2021, 4:06 am by assoulineberlowe
., 105 F.3d 1361 (11th Cir. 1997) (notingCongress’s intent in formulating the FLSA was to protect “poorer and powerless” workers, whereas the exemptions are carved out for those in higher employment positions who do not require such protections), and Orton v. [read post]
20 Jan 2021, 8:14 am
On the other side were the smooth men—cool, apolitical stylists, like Harold Pinter, the late Joe Orton, Christopher Hampton (“The Philanthropist”), Alan Ayckbourn (“The Norman Conquests”), Simon Gray (“Otherwise Engaged”), and Stoppard. [read post]
19 Dec 2020, 8:15 am by Peter S. Lubin and Patrick Austermuehle
According to the Court, it was also unclear whether the plaintiff and Orton had ever discussed permissible forms of copying and distributing the tattoos or whether any implied license that Orton possessed including the right to grant sublicenses to third parties such as Take-Two. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 6:30 am by Terry Hart
Those include whether Alexander impliedly licensed Orton to disseminate and display the six tattoos she inked for him. [read post]