A couple of years ago, actress/singer Lindsay Lohan filed a lawsuit against Rockstar over their Grand Theft Auto V game. Lohan claims that the developers used her likeness without her permission with a character called Lacey Jonas, and now it looks like Rockstar might have a legal battle to contend with.
Judge Joan Kenney, a Supreme Court judge, has ruled that Lohan’s lawsuit against Rockstar and Take-Two can move forward. According to her ruling, “When deciding whether or not a complaint should be dismissed…all factual allegations must be accepted as true.” Basically the judge agrees that there is enough merit in her case to allow it to move forward.
Prior to this, Rockstar’s parent company Take-Two accused Lohan of using the lawsuit as a publicity stunt, but regardless of how they feel it looks like they will now have to defend themselves in court. This is actually not the first time that public figures have claimed that their likeness has been used without permission.
For example there is another GTA 5 allegation in which a mobster’s daughter claimed that her story and her likeness were used in the game without asking her first. We have also seen companies like Activision sued by a former dictator who claims that there is a character from Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 that resembled him.