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It also seems far-fetched that someone playing SanĪndreas would think ESS had provided whatever expertise, Game or, for that matter, that Rockstar operated a strip club.Ī player can enter the virtual strip club in Los Santos, butĮSS has provided no evidence that the setting is anything but Would reasonably have believed that ESS produced the video

Go together like a horse and carriage or, perish the thought, To the Play Pen video games and strip clubs do not The San Andreas Game is not complementary Beyond the fact that the strip club in the game looks pretty different from the one in real life, the court found the likelihood of confusion to be quite limited: However, the court reasonably found no trademark infringement and no 'unfair competition' as the strip club owners' charged. After all, I would think that being known as the strip club found in GTA might actually drive more business to the club. It's already surprising enough that the strip club owners would be upset by this. Thus, Los Angeles becomes Los Santos and The Play Pen becomes The Pig Pen. They usually change up names just slightly to highlight that it's fictional. As players of recent GTA's well know, the designers of the game try to make the cities in the game look somewhat realistic (in an extreme manner) compared to the real cities they're supposed to be portraying. The lawsuit involves a strip club in Los Angeles, called The Play Pen, that apparently got pissed off over a strip club found in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Mike Masnick Against Monopoly points us to a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in a trademark lawsuit that is worth the read, not just for the absurdity of the case, but also for the court's reasoning.

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