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Air ball! Court rejects shot at copyright claim for NBA player tattoos

Mike Nepple April 3, 2020
A tattoo artist giving someone a tattoo on their arm

Is it a technical foul to show NBA players’ tattoos in a video game? A federal judge in New York answered with an emphatic “No,” and ruled in favor of Take Two, a video game developer, and against a company that purchased the tattoo copyrights from the original artists. READ MORE

Fair use blocks out copyright claim over LeBron’s tattoo

Mike Nepple June 1, 2017
fair-use-ink-blog

Solid Oak sued Take-Two Interactive Software for copyright infringement last year, claiming it is a technical foul to display the copyrighted tattoo on LeBron James’s arm in Take-Two’s popular NBA 2K line of video games READ MORE