Florida Joker Dyes Hair Purple Raises GTA 6 Ask to $3 Million
This town deserves a better class of criminal.
The saga of Lawrence Sullivan, AKA the "Florida Joker", continues, as the self-appointed supervillain has again upped the ante in his effort to extract money from Rockstar Games for allegedly using his likeness in GTA 6. Dying his hair purple and donning an orange prison jumpsuit, Sullivan is adding to Rockstar's alleged bill, which he's now set at $3 million, issuing a three-day deadline for compliance before his lawyers "go crazy on this case".
At this point in the story, we won't reiterate that parodying people can qualify as Fair Use in America, at least according to this Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society parody guide we found. It's also true that "Lizzie Lohan" tried unsuccessfully to sue Rockstar for a character resembling the Mean Girls star.
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