Solid Oak Sketches who owns the right to tattoos on NBA players is suing the makers of NBA2K, for graphically reproducing digital tattoos on NBA players without their permission. There are eight tattoos infringed-on that includes ink on LeBron James and Kobe Bryant. More from ESPN:
“Solid Oak Sketches got the copyrights to most of the tattoos last year and, as evidenced by exhibits submitted in the lawsuit, had written letters to the video game company to make an arrangement so that the tattoos could be used in the game. Solid Oak offered to Take-Two a license to the tattoos for $1.1 million.”
The Hollywood Reporter obtained a copy of the lawsuit below:
