Activision Blizzard has defeated wrestler Booker T in lawsuit relating to a character likeness in Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4.
The lawsuit, which was filed in February 2019, centres on a poster of Booker T which was commissioned to promote his 2015 comic G.I. Bro And The Dragon Of Death’ and the similarities between the character and the character of Prophet from Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4.
A comparison is available below:
Micah Dortch of the Dallas office of the Potts Law Firm represented Booker T, and was quoted in the Potts Law blog:
“When seen side-by-side there can be no question that this character was copied from G.I. Bro. From the hair, body type and clothing, right down to facial expressions, the similarities are too profound to be an accident,”
In the motion presented by Activision, it was found that the plaintiff (Booker T and his legal representatives) had not “presented sufficient evidence to support his copyright infringement claim on the merits.”
