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Former U.S. Rep. George Santos alleged in a lawsuit filed Saturday that late-night host Jimmy Kimmel deceived him into making videos on the Cameo app that were used to ridicule the disgraced New York Republican on the show.

The lawsuit filed in U.S. district court for the southern district of New York names Kimmel, ABC and Walt Disney Co. as defendants. A Disney representative listed as a media contact for the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show didn’t immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press seeking comment.

Santos, who was expelled from the House of Representatives last year after being charged with multiple counts of fraud and stealing from donors, is suing over alleged copyright infringement, fraudulent inducement, breach of contract and unjust enrichment.

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[–] CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 128 points 2 years ago (2 children)

For each CAMEO Video (other than a Business CAMEO Video), you hereby grant to the User and the Recipient a non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, worldwide, sublicensable, and perpetual license to use, reproduce, distribute, and publicly display the CAMEO Video, in each case, solely in accordance with the Site Terms, in any and all media, whether now known or hereafter invented or devised (including social media channels and third-party websites and platforms).

I'm only a humbly country space chicken lawyer but the terms explicitly say that Kimmel can do whatever the fuck he wants with the recording.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 63 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The idea that Kimmel doesn't have a legal team that checks for this stuff is laughable.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago

Oh, I'm sure they did, and made sure to get their payment up front

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm really not surprised. They wouldn't even want to limit commercial use, because I'd assume companies paying celebrities for little blurbs for company parties and stuff like that is a meaningful chunk of their business.

Hard to take a lawyer seriously when the language is so clear and the direct premise of the site, though. It's not some obscure power grab in the EULA of a site focused on something different. It's what you're getting paid for.