Bridgestone claims Kevin Butler not in their commercial

I can't find the original commercial anywhere. Does anyone have a link?

An actor's greatest fear; becoming typecast. According to Sony, because Jerry "looks like Kevin Butler" (since he is the actor that plays him), he can't be in other commercials because they spent too much money turning Jerry into Kevin, and if people see him doing something besides "being Kevin" it will confuse people.

Wat?

I guess Jerry better renegotiate the terms of his contract, since he's apparently going to be a lifetime spokesman for Sony.

lolz, Bridgestone you troll.

So the ACTOR who portrays Kevin Butler does a Bridgestone commercial and now Bridgestone gets sued by Sony because they think Bridgestone is using Kevin Butler to advertise tires and a Wii giveaway? Seriously? Jerry Lambert =/= Kevin Butler.

Interesting.....despite, what anyone might think of Sony, they may have a case. When I saw this commercial I was like wtf! And thought Butler had jump ship, didn't even think it was a tire commercial. Thought it was for Wii. Lol

While I think Bridge stone is in the right I learned in comm law that using a person's likeness is not allowed. I forgot what car company used a robot dressed as Vanna White from Wheel of Fortune and got into trouble. It all depends if the court sees the ad as using the likeness of a fictional character in this case Kevin Butler.

the minute I saw that ad I knew something was about to go down

I KNEW IT!!

Jerry Lambert is not Kevin Butler. Unless Sony made a specific deal with the actor Jerry Lambert and had him sign some kind of contract against doing any other commercials for other companies, I don't see how they have a case.

Is the last paragraph basically saying that they wish to own Lambert like a slave?

is this the only way sony can make money now? :p

Bridgestone sounds like they could have a convincing case.

Has something like this ever happened before? Suing for representing a competitor's company?I'm curious. I'm not a fan of the lawsuit, but I can definitely see how this is something Bridgestone/Wildcat Creek Inc should have avoided. 

By now, I've lost count of how many times I have said, "Fuck you, Sony!"

Im going to make a prediction that on April of 2013 Sony will announce Its biggest loss ever after six years of failing to make a profit.

Another waste of taxpayer dollars at work here. Thanks for wasting my money Sony.

So Sony is saying that this actor can't have a life outside of Playstation? Yep, that sounds like Sony alright.

I wonder if Mark Hamill likes Star Trek.

Rules of the Colt of Sony

First Rule: Sony is not a Colt its a company

Second Rule: Nobody promotes a competitors products

Third Rule: Nobody leaves even if let go by the colt

I don't think they're suing for Kevin Butler, they're suing for Jerry Lambert's face.

Given that his contract with Sony was over I don't see the issue with this.

Jerry Lambert is an actor. Actors play many characters in their time. Even if he was under contract with Sony, this is not the issue that Sony is choosing to address, so I have a feeling that this is not really an issue at all. The issue is that they think that he is playing the same character in two different commercials for two very different companies. That's absurd.

Aren't we all tad quick to jump on Sony hate bandwagon? Sure, they made some stupid decisions and have problems with overpricing but here it was clear Bridgestone was testing how far they can go by pulling a Wii on it. Someone mentioned it already but I don't see how the game console can even appear on a tire ad when it could've been him about doing any other things. **

They should have dyed his hair and given him some facial hair.

Kevin Butler: VP of "this is not the Kevin Butler you are looking for".

Jerry Lambert has a contract with Sony  and is shown in a commercial playing a wii. Kevin butler is the fictional character that he plays. so he will be held account for breaking his CONTRACT that is what this is about. not Sony vs Nintendo. 

Sony just keeps spiralling down and down, instead of focusing on what sells their product they focus on immature lawsuits.

Kevin butler makes fun of Nintendo but then plays a Wii ... Why am I not surprised? It's not like Sony rips off all of nintendos ideas o wait they do.

You know, if Sony was clever and had a sense of humour they could have just said that Butler has gone undercover to investigate their competition when it was brought to their attention that Lambert was in the ad, hell that might have even won them a few fans.