Current Events > So Rockstar Games is being sued again but for Vice City

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http://m.tmz.com/#article/2017/07/27/grand-theft-auto-vice-city-sued-miss-cleo-look-alike-auntie-poulet/

Little late the the party

Shouldn't there be a statute of limitations on this kind of crap? If they didn't sue within the first five years then they shouldn't have a right to now.

Psychic Readers Network -- which holds the rights to Miss Cleo

They're not pretty good psychics if it takes them 15 years after a thing occurs to know about it. It's almost as if....
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I really hope they don't win. The design is different enough, and the product satirical enough, that it really should qualify as parody. That is if the court even hears the case at all.

Hexenherz posted...

Shouldn't there be a statute of limitations on this kind of crap? If they didn't sue within the first five years then they shouldn't have a right to now.

Their sort of it is

Civil suits have their own statute of limitations law. "statutes of repose"
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Her estate? So they ran out of money since she passed and are now looking for more free money.

And it's kinda racist of them to just assume a black lady is their family member because it's a black lady being portrayed.
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She voiced the character though, what?
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I want to read more about the suit, and while I'm normally anti-Rockstar, the fucking dumbass psychic mother fuckers deserve to lose and I hope their case has zero merit and the legal fees drive them further into debt.
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DuranOfForcena posted...

wtf, the mobile link goes to a blank page for me, and when i remove the m. it goes to an article about R. Kelly

fucking mobile links, jfc

Try this one.

http://www.tmz.com/2017/07/27/grand-theft-auto-vice-city-sued-miss-cleo-look-alike-auntie-poulet/
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gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Her estate? So they ran out of money since she passed and are now looking for more free money.

And it's kinda racist of them to just assume a black lady is their family member because it's a black lady being portrayed.

They have a somewhat similar appearance, side to side with similar clothes.

But saying that the vice city version is insane. I've seen a ton of people in my life who could easily make the same claim
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iPhone_7 posted...

Psychic Readers Network -- which holds the rights to Miss Cleo

They're not pretty good psychics if it takes them 15 years after a thing occurs to know about it. It's almost as if....

IT'S A SCAM!
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The fuck, didn't miss cleo voice that character? >_>
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Rockstar is screwed.

PRN wouldn't have gone forward with this if they didn't know they were going to win.
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NES4EVER posted...

PRN wouldn't have gone forward with this if they didn't know they were going to win.

How do you figure?
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She literally played the character. Theres no way they have a case
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voldothegr8 posted...

NES4EVER posted...

PRN wouldn't have gone forward with this if they didn't know they were going to win.

How do you figure?

They are psychic, duh
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eston posted...

She literally played the character. Theres no way they have a case

They might if they own the rights to the character and yuree Harris did the gig without their consent.
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NES4EVER posted...

eston posted...

She literally played the character. Theres no way they have a case

They might if they own the rights to the character and yuree Harris did the gig without their consent.

Whose consent? It's her estate suing them
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NES4EVER posted...

Rockstar is screwed.

PRN wouldn't have gone forward with this if they didn't know they were going to win.

lmao

eston posted...

NES4EVER posted...

eston posted...

She literally played the character. Theres no way they have a case

They might if they own the rights to the character and yuree Harris did the gig without their consent.

Whose consent? It's her estate suing them

Uh no? It's the Psychic readers network thst is suing rockstar.
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It seems odd that they would wait this long to do anything.
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It is kind of funny, they are admitting that Ms. Cleo was just a way to con people out of money.
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cjsdowg posted...

It is kind of funny, they are admitting that Ms. Cleo was just a way to con people out of money.

That is kinda what I was thinking.
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Half this topic can be solved by just clicking the dang link, but I guess that's most topics in general. Going to be interesting to see what happens though.
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I wonder why it says her estate is suing then. If PRN owns the character it seems like they would be suing the estate in addition to R*
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They own her character? So is there going to be a new "Miss Cleo"? How will they explain that? She came back from the dead to inhabit a new body? She transferred her soul to another vessel?
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Sexypwnstar posted...

They own her character? So is there going to be a new "Miss Cleo"? How will they explain that? She came back from the dead to inhabit a new body? She transferred her soul to another vessel?

They do this in Wrestling all the time. Owning the character.. not the coming back from the dead. It is this guy named Scott Hall. When he was in the WWE he was called Razor Ramon. And his character was basically a copy of scar face. However when he went to another promotion he was not legally allowed to use that character. So it doesn't matter that Hall made the character famous , is the WWE came up with the idea they owned it .

This isn't typical but they even sent out new guy to say he was Razor lol. Most times that does happen, they just stop the actor from making money off of the character .
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IfGodCouldDie posted...

It seems odd that they would wait this long to do anything.

Maybe they were waiting for the statute of limitations to expire so they couldn't countersue? idk, it's still weird >_>
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cjsdowg posted...

Sexypwnstar posted...

They own her character? So is there going to be a new "Miss Cleo"? How will they explain that? She came back from the dead to inhabit a new body? She transferred her soul to another vessel?

They do this in Wrestling all the time. Owning the character.. not the coming back from the dead. It is this guy named Scott Hall. When he was in the WWE he was called Razor Ramon. And his character was basically a copy of scar face. However when he went to another promotion he was not legally allowed to use that character. So it doesn't matter that Hall made the character famous , is the WWE came up with the idea they owned it .

This isn't typical but they even sent out new guy to say he was Razor lol. Most times that does happen, they just stop the actor from making money off of the character .

But WWE only had the rights to the name Razor Ramon, they couldn't block the character. So Scott Hall was able to go to WCW and pretty much change nothing except his name. WWE couldn't do anything about Scott pretty much uses the Razor character elsewhere, just that he couldn't use the name Razor Ramon.

Even in wrestling this has a fair bit of precedent, When the Dudleys, Christian, etc... went to TNA after leaving WWE they pretty much kept the same character but only changed the name. Some cases where they didn't even have to change their name (like the Hardys, Kurt Angle)

Proto_Spark posted...

Some cases where they didn't even have to change their name (like the Hardys, Kurt Angle)

I would imagine in those cases they wouldn't have to change their name if it was their real name.
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The last two people who tried to sue them for similar reasons (Lindsay Lohan and one of the mod wives) both had their cases dismissed. Basically they couldn't sue because it was a parody and they suing parties couldn't prove damages.

Googling Psychic Readers Network shows they are a bunch of scumbags.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Cleo#Psychic_Readers_Network

In 2002, the Federal Trade Commission charged the company's owners and Harris' promoters, Steven Feder and Peter Stotz, with deceptive advertising, billing, and collection practices; Harris was not indicted.

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Error1355 posted...

Googling Psychic Readers Network shows they are a bunch of scumbags.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Cleo#Psychic_Readers_Network

In 2002, the Federal Trade Commission charged the company's owners and Harris' promoters, Steven Feder and Peter Stotz, with deceptive advertising, billing, and collection practices; Harris was not indicted.

Bunch of crooks taking advantage of people.