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PC News by Tom Bramwell
Well-known introvert and occasional US rapper 50 Cent is suing an internet advertising company for USD 1 million claiming it used a picture of him in an interactive advert. Which is a "videogame", according to Associated Press, and therefore a "page impression" according to us.
The ad, called "Shoot the Rapper" (linked from Druge Report), allegedly uses the rapper's likeness without his consent. 50 Cent's lawyer says he's "personally offended". "[I]t looks like him, and there's no doubt the character is intended to be him," Mr Laywer, aka Peter Raymond, explained.
Mr Cent wasn't so offended by his own game you might remember, presumably bowled over by the way it "stumbles well under the benchmarks set for the PS2", in our reviewer's own phrase. AP says the ad-firm involved has yet to shoot back.
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keyboardmonkey
23/07/07 @ 06:53
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The total disappointment ! You don't actually get to shoot 50 Cent with a gun! unfortunately it is only with a camera.
+1 Disc I also hate them |
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Jamaicangmr
23/07/07 @ 07:24
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If thats what they did then they deserve to be sued. It's distastful and pregidicial specially in the case of Mr. Jackson (50cent)
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mcwildcard
23/07/07 @ 07:55
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If that's the same ad company that does the 'mosquito zapper' ad, then I hope he kills them all in a drive-by.
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Gotta agree with him on this. It's one thing to concent to being used in a game (hey he didn't write the code so the game being crap isn't his fault in the least) and entirely another for someone to assume they can use you to make them money. First thing I'd have done was look in my wallet, go "Hmmm nope not a penny from them" and sue.
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3william56
23/07/07 @ 08:22
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Ahttp://www. The poor, sensitive ickle lamb.
Did the nasty advert man make fun of you, little Fiddy? You just tell your Mum on him. She'll sort him out. For a dude who's supposedly been shot half a dozen times, he seems a little thin skinned. |
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SilasMalkav
23/07/07 @ 08:33
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Hatred of 50 fighting with hatred of crappy interactive adverts.....
I hope that this is a tight legal battle that is costly to both sides and eventually leads them both to a life of pain and suffering. |
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Markusdragon
23/07/07 @ 08:53
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Monkeys are expected to file a class action lawsuit over this very same issue next week.
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Wait so interactive ads are video games? So much for nintendo bring gaming to the masses! Also isn't there some kind of poetic license taken in animation and parady otherwise couldn't all the politicians of the 1980s sue spitting image? Even Tom 'i'll sue any one who mentions my name' Cruise hasn't sued south park for that scientology episode.
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