Ubisoft sues Black Eyed Peas for $1m over absence of love for iOS game
Posted by Joystiq Oct 17 2012 16:30 GMT in Ubisoft
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Ubisoft filed a $1 million lawsuit yesterday against BEP Music LLC, a company which owns the Black Eyed Peas trademark, for neglecting to recognize the publisher's planned iOS version of The Black Eyed Peas Experience. Following the Wii and Xbox 360 versions released last year, Ubisoft claims BEP breached the companies' contract regards an iOS version. According to Ubisoft, the contract states the band agreed to approve or disapprove the iOS version within 10 business days of a request. Ubisoft says BEP music failed to acknowledge requests for approval, despite repeated attempts.

Ubisoft claims the company's spent $233,000 developing the iOS game, and that figure combined with loss of profits over a game that cannot be released without the Black Eyed Peas trademark amounts to a total of $1 million in damages. While Ubisoft didn't name the company or the game in question in its complaint, as Player Attack notes BEP Music only own the one trademark. All in all, I Gotta Feeling the French publisher isn't about to Shut Up about this anytime soon.

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