“GTA, we got to talk”
They don’t.
“if not, you got to give me like a mil or two,”
They really don’t.
It’s amazing how little a case he has. I mean, sure, that bit in the trailer is clearly a reference to that (criminal) event he was involved with, but not him, specifically, as a person. (Also, does Florida have laws about not profiting off a crime?) It doesn’t look like him. (Other people have colored hair and facial tattoos.) Those aren’t his tattoos - if they were, the copyright on his tattoos would be held by the tattoo artist, not him. (This has caused problems in the past for celebrity likenesses in sports games, where tattoos were faithfully recreated - and resulted in having to pay fees to the tattoo artists.) We don’t actually know that this character is even in the game itself - there are a bunch of references to viral videos/news stories about Florida craziness in there that clearly aren’t going to make it into the game. (Is “lady who twerked on top of a car” going to demand her cut, too?) Plus, issues of parody, having the right to refer to real events in fiction, etc.
On top of which, the idiot calls himself “Florida Joker,” thereby admitting that he’s imitating a trademarked character. He can hardly claim to the original in all this, that it’s “his likeness,” and if an infringement was made, it could be argued that it would be DC that should get the money…
