Looks like Matt and Trey hit a nerve at EA.
EA Sports To Sue South Park Creators Over Tiger Woods Episode
The episode presented Woods’ marital problems as part of a storyline in EA’s latest Tiger Woods video game. According to the article, a source commented
Seems to me that South Park’s production team and Comedy Central might be held immune due to fair use laws governing parodies, but IANAL and it should be interesting to see if this case even makes it to court.
More like EA bad Sports, lol
It’ll be nothing but embarrassing, and not to Stone and Parker. Like when Bill Donohue made a fuss over the bleeding-statue-of-Mary episode or Isaac Hayes quit over the Scientology episode. No such thing as bad publicity, y’know?
Whoops! Boy, is my face ever red! Apparently, the news of a lawsuit is false. According to Joystiq, a representative from EA stated that the news is “nonsense”, and EA has made no plans to sue over the South Park episode.
http://i.joystiq.com/2010/03/22/ea-rumors-of-lawsuit-over-south-park-episode-are-nonsense/
Excuse me while I wipe the egg off my face. Another lesson learned. You can’t always believe everything you read on the Internet, even if it looks like it’s from a good source.