Manuel Noriega, tidligere militærdiktator i Panama, slæber Activision i retten på grund af brugen af hans navn og udseende i Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.
Noriega kalder hans medvirken i spillet for groft misbrug og ulovlig udnyttelse af hans image og udseende for økonomisk vinding.
Black Ops 2 indeholder en mission, kaldet Suffer With Me, hvor målet er at tage netop Noriega til fange. Og tilsyneladende har Treyarch og Activision altså ikke spurgt om lov, inden de inkluderede ham i spillet.
Ifølge Courthouse News står der blandt andet i stævningen:
"In an effort to increase the popularity and revenue generated by BLACK OPS II, defendants used, without authorization or consent, the image and likeness of plaintiff in BLACK OPS II.
"Defendants' use of plaintiff's image and likeness caused damage to plaintiff. Plaintiff was portrayed as an antagonist and portrayed as the culprit of numerous fictional heinous crimes, creating the false impression that defendants are authorized to use plaintiff's image and likeness. This caused plaintiffs to receive profits they would not have otherwise received."
Det lyder næsten som en aprilsnar, gør det ikke?