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.
Remember when Rodgers made fun of Kimmel? And Kimmel cried? I know, I know…“it’s NOT the same!”.
Made fun of Kimmel by accusing him of being involved in a pedophilia and sex trafficking ring?
Just a little playful kidding.
This fuckwit will need to sue every mirror manufacturer
At least it’s just George Santos, nothing to worry about.
Good thing Kimmel didn’t piss off that Devolder guy, though. I hear he’s an excellent lawyer for the MIT rowing team.
George Santos doesn’t like being deceived, and would have taken different actions if he knew better?
Do tell.
This thing deserves all the ridicule it’s suffering.
"Frankly, Kimmel’s fake requests were funny, but what he did was clear violation of copyright law,”
How?
Cameo sounds like work for hire to me. You pay, it’s yours.
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.
The idea that Kimmel doesn’t have a legal team that checks for this stuff is laughable.
Oh, I’m sure they did, and made sure to get their payment up front
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 party 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.
Show me a republican not on the grift. Go ahead, I have time…
Abraham Lincoln?
They should have specified alive, that’s on them.
Got eeeemmm
Well, there’s:
Well somebody here isn’t telling the truth, but the question is whom…hmmm…
Oh, George. Keep wasting that sweet Cameo money on lawyers because you’re too stupid to realize they’re fleecing you.
“Tricking him” by paying for him to say stuff over Cameo, something he agreed to.
In fact, the only way he didn’t know what he was being tricked into was that he didn’t read what he said before he said it since you can say no to any request. It was fucking obvious he was being trolled. Here’s one of the things he was paid to, and did, say and it wasn’t even the most ridiculous:
Enjoy being laughed out of court, George.
Holy fuck. Reading that, how was it not obviously a troll/joke? Are our politicians that out of touch? Seriously. Are they actually that. Badly. Out. Of. Touch?
If so, I’ll be pouring one out for America. I know they are generally old, but come on!
TBF he got kicked out of congress for his shenanigans, is literally a national laughing stock for his idiocy, and also needed the money badly so likely would have said anything. A lot of moving pieces with this guy.
No need to pour one out, at least, not over this.
Like I said, that wasn’t even the most ridiculous one. This was. And yes, he said it.
Enjoy losing that case, snowflake
I didn’t even know about the Kimmel segment, now I’m gonna go find it and laugh at Santos. Thanks George, I wouldn’t have known about these unless you sued
He said on his show that he was going to make Santos talk to him on Cameo before he even did it.
For anyone curious, I’ll save you a click. I don’t think it’s particularly funny, but Santos is an idiot, so more power to them I guess.
Wait, they didn’t even chop up the clips and play them out of context or anything? The fuck is Santos even complaining about?
I assume it won’t be too long before Santos shows up at OnlyFans. Then he’ll probably not only say whatever anyone wants for money, but also do whatever they pay him for. But please beware: he will probably sue everyone who “forced” him to provide “strange” services.
Let me get this straight. You were made fun of by a guy who works for Disney. An organization that’s ridiculously protective of their brand and famous for not being fucked with. One of the most litigious organizations, with an army of lawyers who know more about entertainment law than anyone on the planet. And you’re plan is to sue these people? Good luck.
Lucius, get back to work.
So… is he going to return the money?
