'Call of Duty' wins First Amendment victory over use of Humvees

Re:'Call of Duty' wins First Amendment victory over use of H... by ummonk on Thursday April 02, 2020 @05:37PM (#22764148)

What if I wrote a bad review of your product and claimed it fails spectacularly? E.g. what Top Gear did with the Tesla Roadster.

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Re:'Call of Duty' wins First Amendment victory over use of H... by izacus on Thursday April 02, 2020 @05:45PM (#22764222)

What if? Nothing. It's a dumb product, there joke is over and you move on in a few seconds.

There's no real need for this wired free speech limitation to protect something as dead as a brand.

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Re:'Call of Duty' wins First Amendment victory over use of H... by ummonk on Thursday April 02, 2020 @07:02PM (#22764770)

Exactly. I don't see why games should be treated any different than bad reviews.

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Re:'Call of Duty' wins First Amendment victory over use of H... by fiblye on Thursday April 02, 2020 @08:56PM (#22765437)

Advertising would very quickly shift from promoting your product, to actively trashing the competitor's.

The whole "Our soda taste so much better than the unnamed competitor's!" style advertising would quickly change to something like "X Corp Brand Soda is the biggest supporter of elephant extermination worldwide and uses lead to give their product their sugar-free sweetness. Is their soda really worth it? (haha, just kidding. Or are we?)"

Smaller companies would be absolutely crushed by larger corporations dragging them through the mud with political style ads all day.

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Re:'Call of Duty' wins First Amendment victory over use of H... by ummonk on Thursday April 02, 2020 @09:57PM (#22765729)

You seem to be under the false impression that companies aren't already allowed to trash their competitors in advertisements.

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