// January 4th, 2010 // No Comments » // p2p
- | Games:- “We’re a mobile applications company based in Dublin. Our apps will be hitting the store, en masse, in November & December,” said Factory Six (with a little Apple apple as its icon) just before Christmas. Not. Not Super Agent, anyway. Because he DA MAN, ‘he’ being Ari Emanuel, a “wheeler-dealer so vaunted that his clients include Ben Affleck, Christian Bale, Robert De Niro and Keira Knightley,” says the Independent . And he’s PISSED OFF with Oisin Hanrahan whose Factory Six developed SuperAgent, an iPhone game based on the entertainment industry, says the story. And Apple is listening. Emanuel “claims the game, in which players adopt the persona of a highly strung Hollywood ‘ten-percenter’ who happens to be called Ari, was crudely inspired by his own career,” it says, going on: “His lawyers are therefore demanding that Factory Six withdraws it” and, “The dispute has persuaded Apple to halt sales of Super Agent from its store, pending further investigation.” The game sold for $2 on the iTunes App store and, “Citing a story from the online site TechNews that said the game’s Ari was clearly based on both Ari Emanuel and Ari Gold, attorney Patricia Glaser wrote in a letter to FactorySix that the company ‘cannot deny that it intended to capitalize on using Mr. Emanuel’s and WME’s names for the Game, and possibly mislead the public into believing that Mr. Emanuel and/or WME endorse the Game’,” said the Los Angeles Times in December Glaser told FactorySix to “immediately cease and desist using those names in conjunction with the Game.” Based in Ireland, Factory Six “denies basing its game on Mr Emanuel, and says that Ari was chosen for its protagonist’s name because the success of the TV series Entourage, which lifts a lid on power-broking in the film industry, has made it synonymous with the profession,” states the Independent, adding: “Mr Hanrahan said yesterday: ‘The name has come to represent Hollywood, and the whole idea of Hollywood, rather than a particular person. We’re a very small firm, of just three people, and since Apple pulled it we have had no income’.” Undeterred, “Factory Six says that it will soon launch an iPhone game based on pretending to be the President of the United States,” says the story, adding: “By coincidence, the current holder of that job boasts Rahm Emanuel, Ari’s brother, as his chief-of-staff. ‘I hope he takes it better, Mr Hanrahan said.” - … .. … and identi.ca More First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi Independent – Hollywood vs the iPhone, January 3, 2010 Los Angeles Times – SuperAgent Ari — sound familiar?, December 21, 2009 Use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site. Subscribe to - | | rss feed: http://-/feed -? -
