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more about #lawyermans TRT-X: And that 6 months of lawyering is why you'd never have seen "Guitar Hero: Beatles". Because that 6 months of time spent getting the likenesses and ov... more » Camo Zombie is coining the vernacular: Can I just say, WORTH IT. Its the best rock band/guitar hero game I've played. The achievements are hard though. What does "EXPERT GOLD STARS" mean a... more » Falsoman: This game ended up great except for the fact that it may have the most boring end credits ever! And I stayed at the end of the Matrix Reloaded. more » Not-too-Pessimippopotamus: I appreciated the effort except for one glaring flaw. The obvious omission of famous hits for future DLC release. Obviously. more » dowingba: It was worth it. The game fucking rocks. And the attention to detail is astounding. Bravo, Harmonix. more » WhatTheFrag: That's only natural. They had to use around 40+ songs and there's bound to be little rights holders here and there. 6 months is a pretty good time for... more » Scazza: Thank the lord they did it, because i personally dont care for music games, but this is the first one that literally brought my family together to pla... more » spinning_piledriver: I would've loved to have been there watching a couple of silver-tongued lawyers discussing the rights to one of the most influential bands ever so tha... more » tehkid: It should be noted that video game lawyers move at the speed of molasses, on a good day. more » (Starman) NONAME: "a deal with Disney to produce a new version of the Yellow Submarine animated film in 2012." Oh hell no. Just rerelease the original version and clea... more » Masonvrocks: A new Yellow Submarine movie!? Why oh why!? That movie still haunts me from when I was six, I guess this generation of children need something to have... more » moose39: You forgot the lower case-j's. more » Pandare: Good to see that as a law student, I can look forward to such things as six months of negotiating the same contract day in and day out. Oh the excitem... more » -Skyline-:Offering FREE Grunt Birthday Parties!: I've heard there were huge email threads just whether or not there was a Colon in "The Beatles : Rock Band" more » MushroomBoy1022: solid game, worth the hastlin'. that movie remake, tho, i can't say...... more » (Zombie) Jölan: Activision is just lucky they didn't press charges for rape. more » Fallible.: Whatever happened to imitation being the sincerest form of flattery? That said, I'd still like royalties if someone where to use one of my designs. I ... more » TSFMfest: It's ker-tee-or-ar-ee if you want to, you know, actually pronounce it correctly. more » NeVeRMoRe666: "it's likely the final spadeful of dirt was smoothed over the grave of Thompson's legal career yesterday." *Dances on grave* + Watch video more » Alchemistmerlin: Didn't he get hit by a bus or something? Or did I dream that? What a nice dream. more » -
#thebeatlesrockband
Beatles: Rock Band Required Six Months of Lawyerin'
When you're building something like The Beatles: Rock Band, the development cycle isn't entirely on the coding end. A team of lawyers for the Beatles worked for six months on the likenesses, names and trademarks that went into the game. More » -
#lawyermans
Activision, Gibson Guitar Settle Claims
Sometime last week, Activision and Gibson Guitar decided to end their legal wrangling over a patent infringement claim made against the Guitar Hero franchise. Terms ain't disclosed. More » -
#thalaw
Thompson's Final Pleading Most Likely Heard
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court considered ex-lawyer-mans Jack Thompson's request to help him get back to current lawyer-mans land. It's not expected to get very far. More » -
#secondlife
Lawyer-Mans of Dune Smack Down Second Life Arrakis
The lord high executioners of Frank Herbert's estate have demanded that all Second Life areas (inhabited by all of 130 people) remove all references to Dune IP. Drat. There goes my 36-inch sandworm cock. More » -
#farting
iPhone Fart Apps Bring Out the Lawyer-Mans
With enough chutzpah to make a patent troll wolf-whistle, a Florida company has claimed the phrase "pull my finger" - used by a competing iPhone fart app, of course - infringes on its intellectual property. More » -
#legal
Old Kentucky Home Burns, Nintendo Sued
Lawsuits must hit Nintendo with all the regularity, and fanfare, of the morning newspaper arriving on the lawn. Now the insurance-mans is suing them, saying a DS power supply burnted a Kentucky residence. -
