Photograph by: Dave Sidaway , THE GAZETTE
Lawyers for Rick Genest, best known as Zombie Boy, and 20th Century Fox Television have settled a legal dispute over copyright infringement of the tattooed Montrealer’s body art.
Genest, a local hero and model who has appeared in Lady Gaga’s Born This Way video and catwalks from Paris to Toronto, has copyrighted his skeletal body tattoos. Actor Evan Peters sports similar body makeup in FX’s American Horror Story and his character goes on a shooting rampage.
Copyrighting the body art was a process that began last year, said Genest’s Montreal legal counsel, Colin Singer. “When someone has an extensive creation, it is intellectual property. There is extensive intellectual property in Rick Genest’s persona,’’ he said, noting details of the settlement are under wraps.
“Horror Story has aired in dozens of countries, potentially exposing Fox to hundreds of thousands of dollars in copyright infringement damages and erasing or obscuring the Zombie Boy body art in future airings of the episode would have been extremely costly,’’ the Hollywood Reporter noted.
Source: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Zombie+settle+body+copyright+dispute/7404556/story.html#ixzz29f0wD3Ce
