Hangover II: Fucked by Tattoo?

Alright everyone has seen the trailer for the Hangover II. The most noticeable part of it is that Ed Helms' character wakes up with that weird Mike Tyson tattoo on his face. Well, now the tattoo artist who did the tat for Tyson is suing Warner Bros. for copyright infringement.

From The Hollywood Reporter:
The battle between Warner Bros and Mike Tyson's tattoo artist is heating up. On Friday, the studio told a judge why S. Victor Whitmill, who is suing over a copyrighted tattoo on Ed Helms' face in Hangover Part II, shouldn't be able to stop distribution of the film. The highly anticipated sequel is scheduled to be released this week ,so a decision should be forthcoming soon.

In its brief, Warner Bros. says Whitmill will not be able to succeed on the merits of his claims that Hangover II constitutes copyright infringement of what the he calls "one of the most distinctive tattoos in the nation."

"The very copyrightability of tattoos is a novel issue," says the Warner Bros. brief. "There is no legal precedent for Plaintiff's radical claim that he is entitled, under the Copyright Act, to control the use of a tattoo that he created on the face of another human being."

Warner Bros. says that Tyson's tattoo is ubiquitous and that he appeared in the first Hangover movie without objection from Whitmill.

So now Warner Bros has to beg a judge to not stop the releases of the Hangover II. People have tickets, copies are out to theaters, shit is on the move. When I first heard that this dude was suing about the tattoo I didn't take it seriously. I mean tattoos are art. And someone's art is their intellectual property. However with tattoos there are so many people who have basically the same one. Sow hat the fuck can you do?

And the hearing scheduled for today is going to be in Missouri. I hope this Whitmill guy just gets hit with a tornado and disappears. No more lawsuit, hilarious movie comes out unimpeded. We all win.