PDS 12.18 The PewDiePie Situation, Trust Problems, Fortnite Legal Troubles Grow, & Trump's New BAN
The Philip DeFranco Show
philip defranco
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2018
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So be a beautiful bastards. |
| 0:01.3 | Hope even a fantastic Tuesday. |
| 0:03.1 | Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show |
| 0:05.1 | and let's just jump into it. |
| 0:06.5 | And the first thing we're going to talk about today |
| 0:07.9 | is an update to the Fort Knight lawsuit news. |
| 0:10.6 | When we last talked about this story, |
| 0:11.6 | you had artist 2 Millie suing epic games |
| 0:14.0 | this because the lawsuit alleged that epic games for Fortnights stole his |
| 0:17.3 | Millie Rock Dance and I will say in that video it stirred up a very interesting |
| 0:21.3 | debate and now we're seeing more people jump on the lawsuit train |
| 0:24.6 | reportedly Alfonso Ribero of course Carlton from Fresh Prince of Belair |
| 0:28.0 | he of course did a dance on that TV show which has been referred to as the |
| 0:30.7 | Carlton Fortnite has the same one Fresh, and according to Alfonso's attorney, |
| 0:34.7 | Epic has earned record profits off of downloadable content in the game including Emotes like Fresh. |
| 0:38.7 | Yet Epic has failed to compensate or even ask permission from Mr. Ribeiro for the use of his likeness and iconic intellectual property. |
| 0:44.3 | Also along with Epic Games he is suing Take-2 Interactive 2K Sports and 2K Games for the use of the dance |
| 0:49.5 | in their NBA 2K line of games. |
| 0:51.2 | But also of note here, Alfonso is not the last person to sue. |
| 0:54.6 | Russell Horning, aka the kid from the Katie Perry video, aka Backpack Kid, |
| 0:58.4 | he is also reportedly suing Epic Games and the makers of NBA 2K for using his dance move without asking for permission or paying him. |
| 1:04.2 | But following this, there are now people accusing Backpack Kid of stealing the dance. |
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