WWE star Booker T suing Activision over Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 character Treyarch\/WikiCommons: shstrngLegendary WWE wrestling star Booker T is suing Activision for allegedly using one of his characters in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. The wrestler, whose real name is Booker T. Huffman is suing the video game publisher for allegedly putting his comic book character \u2018G.I. Bro\u2019 and its likeness in Black Ops 4. It is alleged that the look of the comic book character was used to create the Prophet specialist, in-game name David \u2018Prophet\u2019 Wilkes, as the looks of the two characters are pretty similar \u2013 despite the specialist being a cybernetically enhanced soldier with a number of mechanical body parts. In the legal documents, which have been published online via Scribd, Booker T\u2019s complaint states that: \u201cThey (Activision) could have drawn him (Prophet) anyway they wanted but they chose to steal Booker T.\u2019s \u2018G. I. Bro.\u2019\u201d Read More: Leaker claims to reveal details of Modern Warfare 4 \u2013 MW2 Remastered, battle royale and more – The complaint also states that \u201cThere is no doubt that Defendants copied G. I. Bro,\u201d displaying a side-by-side comparison of the two as evidence. For an outcome, The former WWE star is seeking a trial by jury but those details were not a part of his initial case filing and would come at a later date \u2013 likely if the two parties cannot settle prior to that point. Activision isn\u2019t the first gaming company to be sued by a celebrity. Fortnite developer Epic Games has been under fire from a number of different personalities regarding a number of their in-game emotes. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star Alfonso Ribiero, who played Carlton Banks, recently had his copyright claim for the \u2018Carlton Dance\u2019 denied by a U. S. Copyright Office registration specialist. The dance is in Fortnite as the \u2018Fresh\u2019 emote and Riberio has filed a case against Epic Games claiming that his \u201clikeness and intellectual property have been misappropriated.\u201d While the cases against Epic are still ongoing, any successful case against a gaming company over character likeliness would set a huge precedent moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WWE star Booker T suing Activision over Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 character Treyarch\/WikiCommons: shstrngLegendary WWE wrestling star Booker T is suing Activision for allegedly using one of his characters in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. The wrestler, whose real name is Booker T. Huffman is suing the video game publisher for allegedly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}