Activision sues Anthony Fantano for \u2018misusing\u2019 IP laws after demanding payment for TikTok audio Activision\/Anthony FantanoActivision is suing Anthony Fantano for \u201cmisusing\u201d IP laws after the music critic demanded payment for usage of his TikTok audio. Anthony Fantano, a well-known YouTuber who runs The Needle Drop channel, has been heralded as one of the most influential music critics of our generation. However, the popular critic is now being sued by Activision. In a lawsuit filed by the game publisher, they are suing Fantano for misusing intellectual property laws after he demanded payment for Activision\u2019s usage of his viral TikTok audio in one of the company\u2019s TikTok posts. The \u201cit\u2019s enough slices\u201d TikTok video was created by Fantano, which has now become a popular audio on the platform. This is what Activision used in a TikTok post where they showed off a pair of custom Crash Bandicoot sneakers. According to Activision\u2019s statement in the lawsuit, \u201cin an apparent effort to even further profit from the Slices Video, Fantano has embarked on a scheme whereby he selectively threatens to sue certain users of the Slices Audio unless they pay him extortionate amounts of money for their alleged use.\u201d Activision claims that when Fantano uploaded the Slices video on TikTok, the audio became available for use by the public, according to TikTok\u2019s terms and services. Activision says that Fantano\u2019s demands started around June 2023 when he asked Activision to take down the video as he felt it infringed on his publicity rights. According to the lawsuit, \u201cFantano suddenly decided that Activision\u2019s video infringed his publicity rights and constituted a false endorsement. Moreover, even though Activision agreed to remove its video from TikTok, Fantano demanded that Activision either immediately pay him substantial monetary damages or be prepared to defend a lawsuit.\u201d Activision further states of Fantano\u2019s payment demands, \u201cno reasonable consumer would mistakenly believe that Fantano \u2013 who admits that users have no idea the Slices Audio features his voice \u2013 sponsored or endorsed Activision or its video merely because the Slices audio was included in that video.\u201d As of writing, Anthony Fantano has not made a public statement on the lawsuit, however, we will update you here if there are any changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Activision sues Anthony Fantano for \u2018misusing\u2019 IP laws after demanding payment for TikTok audio Activision\/Anthony FantanoActivision is suing Anthony Fantano for \u201cmisusing\u201d IP laws after the music critic demanded payment for usage of his TikTok audio. Anthony Fantano, a well-known YouTuber who runs The Needle Drop channel, has been heralded as one of the most […]<\/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-43441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43441","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=43441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}