http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/5766288





i for one would love to punch this douchebag in the face...what a total moron.

I won't sue Orlando Bloom for looking like me. It's all his fault.

Here's a picture of him:

Hahaha, dumbest. lawsuit. ever.

What, it's Jordan's fault that you look like him? What possible angle can he put into this?

What a pathetic lawsuit.

Wow...First off a normal person who knew anything about basketball could tell thats not Michael and then lol at him suing MJ when he wears his shoes and then suing Pat Knight for advertising MJ.....this guy does not deserve to live.

Wrong target. The guy is just a moron. The laywer who convinced him this has any chance other than ending in a "What the heck is the crap doing in my courtroom summary judgement granted for defendant oh and you can pay their fees and some penalties for a suit this dumb and I'll have you disbarred if you ever show up in my court with a suit likethis in my court again" smackdown from the judge is the one who deserves your ire.

Got to be the stupidist thing i've ever heard of.

WTF, wheres a shotgun this guy needs to be taken down slug style.

If we stretch and consider "lawsuits that should be barred by tort reform" to be a sport, here's a contender for one of the stupidest, or at least most annoying.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20060712/en_ ... hvBHNlYwM-

Nothing to do with sports, but seemed germaine to this thread.

That is not a dum lawsuit. He may be wrong but that is for a court to decide. However if he has a script with a boat called The Black Pearl and characters named Will Turner and Elizibeth and does have a apirate lead with similiar traits to the pirate lead in PoTC. If he did have a copyright with the US and if he did show them to an agency that worked with Dis-knee(sorry but there is profit to be had) I would say that is an extremely strong case. Particularily since he claims to have PRIOR ART which is key any IP case.


The MJ case is just retarded though.

While I am not disputing your position that there can be merit in a IP suit in general, I've also seen enough of these and how they turn out to feel my belief this is a load of BS is fairly justified. I've seen that type of chain of evidence be validated to a reasonable degree and then ruled non-germaine. Honestly, the Buchwald-Murphy case is about the only one of these I can recall as being substantiated to the point where plaintiffs case actually won. However, I also suspect that when it comes down to it, none of his major claims will be substantiated,. The timing is beyond suspicious. If his suit was that good, why'd he wait till after POTC2 was released?

That is pretty stupid!

but it doesnt beat the McDonalds is making me fat lawsuit

Well I will have to read the complaint but it is not unusual for a case to be filed several years later. I have had cases where the dispute is five years old. Was this just filed, is it assigned a judge or going to a court call? Were attempts made to settle this dispute before goign to court with Disney(that is the big one)

I am more than willing to concede that in general, the circumstances you describe are certainly feasible and that in theory that such a suit has merit is well within reason if you are willing to concede that the timing of the filing of this particular case calls into question over whether such merit in fact exists. Perhaps not in a court of law, but certainly in our court of public opinion.

The difference in the Buchwald case was that Paramount actually optioned the script at one point. Paramount settled out of court.

that was kinda my point. Although IIRC, they only settled after the initial judgement went against them - but that suit took so long to play out I may be misrembering.

Paramount also did not have a ride about an African Price in two extremely well known theme parks for a number of decades prior to the movie's release.

Timing of a case is is very important in a case and to the public. What is important is to why it took so long to bring the suit about.

I will use an example of in whcih Amado sued Microsoft over the real time linking of a live spreadsheet and a database. In this case Excel and Access. He had a patent, he met wiht MS and he had prior art but he didn't file suit until almost 7 years after MS implemented it. He won his case. From what I read here the claims sound the same. This guy claims to have copyrighted material that is similiar to PoTC he claims to have had a meeting with some agency or Disney directly and he claims ot have Prior Art.

Other valid reasons for waiting this long to file suit would first he would have to see the film and say hmm the is very similiar. then he would have to review his work to see if HE felt like he was right. Than he would have to find a lawyer and if he is not of wealthy means than this could take a while though since it is Disney not a long time since if he wins it would a large settlement. This is of course assuming that he is right.

If he is wrong it could be hmm how can i produce fake prior art and such. However if he did have copyrights there would be a filing date.

Well if you are refering to the name of the movie that doesn't matter. It is possibly conceivable that Disney was thinking about making PoTC had a script come by the agents labeled Supernatural Pirates that was probably fairly shoddy and decided to take elements of the script they like to build a film on wihtout giving credit to the first script or paying him. If that were the case then Disney clearly erred.

It is also possible this is a broke guy who thinks it could be easy money which also happens.

BTW if the above situtation is what happened. Than hte writer will probably see a HUGE paycheck because of PoTC2s gross and also 3s as well as one because of the use of characters.

Not that I really want to continue arguing since I think we agree on the basics. (Yeah, this is Possible. Also Possible Dude is FOS - Yes?)

But, there are very convincing points the writers make in the DVD commentary regarding the latent supernatural element that had always been in the ride. There are also some rather direct comments made by one of the writers regarding how some of the characters were named (the bit about how he was on ana animal kick). Characters which include Jack, Elizabeth and Will. So either that writer is lying, or we already have reason to question dude's version of events.

I am not arguing nor really do I care about this. There is a reason we have courts is for stuff like this that is all I am saying. I get defensive when people start calling cases silly or stupid. Except for the look alike case which is retarded.

I have never seen the commentary for Pirats nor will I ever since Pirates is one of the films that I think is so bad I will never watch it again. I did see the sequel but I had ulterior motives and kept my mouth shut so other people would enjoy it. So as far as commentary goes I will never know what they said.

I just hope that if this case goes to trial I am not working on it. I would hate to have to make clips out of Pirates, I mean the depostions I work with are 1000 times more interesting than this movie.

I'm suing Wayne gretzky because he plays hockey too much like me. 12 billion for my pain and suffering.

I can't believe the guy won!!