EA Suing Over South Park Tiger Woods Episode

[kingsize1978]

No no EA needs money....They'll sue alright. Its all about the $$$ with EA. Its the American way.

 

[belardo]

EA sucks balls again. Maybe if they spent more work on their games, less time DRMing, they would get more sales.

EA - you're stupid. You can't sue over an obvious parody.

Now, if someone CAME out with a video game like the one in South Park, had "EA" and "Tiger Woods", mass-produced / shared / sold such a game - then yes, EA and/or Tiger Woods would have a legal ground.

Otherwise, EA could sue David letterman, SNL, etc... and perhaps even open them selves to law-suits.

 

[eddieroolz]

EA, good way to earn a bad rap among the demographic that watches this show. They also tend to be gamers too.

 

[bebangs]

quote - gamefocus
UPDATE (March 22 @ 1:59 PM EST)

We’ve contacted Electronic Arts earlier today and we got this as an answer:

"EA SPORTS does not plan to sue the creators of South Park"

 

[jamie_macdonald]

LOL!!!!

South Park 1 - E.A. 0

If they think that score will change (regardless of legal action) they are completely mistaken ^^

 

[bboysil]

Just LOL

 

[rtfm]

AaronVA1983, you are a knob.

Troll somewhere else please.

 

[anamaniac]

Fair use laws? Parody's are legal?
Someone forget that?

 

[stratplaya]

Parody is protected speech in this context. Give it up EA, and get a sense of humor.

 

[EvilMonk]

What the hell is wrong with EA? Now what? no freedom of speech and opinion? Come on if they don't understand that its third degree jokes and that most people understand thats its not the real Tiger Woods PGA tour 2010 they need to sit on it and spin around. I think that PGA Tour should look a lot more like that 😛

 

[Guest]

Great publicity though.

 

[zak_mckraken]

Over the past years, South Park has had billions of reasons to get sued. Michael Jackson, Oprah, Martha Stewart... but this? HA!

 

[AdamB5000]

LOL. I need to catch up on South Park.

The bigger question is, should EA be mad at Tiger or South Park? Tiger effed the whole thing up. South Park just mocks it a little.

Like people won't buy a golf game because of a South Park episode.

 

[figgus]

Yeah, parody is protected speech. EA doesn't have a leg to stand on here.

The amusing thing is that Blizzard was smart enough to work WITH South Park on their parody, just for the free publicity. EA is as clueless as they are greedy, it seems.

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]figgus[/nom]Yeah, parody is protected speech. EA doesn't have a leg to stand on here.The amusing thing is that Blizzard was smart enough to work WITH South Park on their parody, just for the free publicity. EA is as clueless as they are greedy, it seems.[/citation]

The WoW episode is probably the only SP I've seen in the past 5 years. Marketing gold / amusing parody = win/win. Once again, EA is the worst thing to happen to video games ever.

 

[mcnaugha]

premiere is spelt premiere not premier. Two different words.

 

[touchdowntexas13]

I thought it was funny, especially butters.

As for a lawsuit, I don't think anything will come of it, at least for EA.

 

[HavoCnMe]

They need to make a new South Park game with characters from the last 4 seasons. With an Imagination Land Death match level.

 

[HavoCnMe]

And a street fighter type mode as well. So i can play as Tiger and my girlfriend can play as his wife...oh I can't wait. Come on companies start thinking this shit up right now.

 

[Guest]

South Park does this every time they have a big episode. Remember when Tom Cruise was going to sue for the "in the closet" episode? Remember when PETA, George Bush, Apple, Wal Mart, etc, etc were supposedly going to sue South Park?

It is just viral advertising by South Park.

Toms, and most of you, are the chumps that propagate the free advertising aka rumors that South Park's own PR people put out there. Suckers.