this is crazy, especially considering that it was mostly done as a homage to Tyson. That tattooist should be happy, free publicity right?

Coming fresh out of Film Finance class. This goes under the fair use policy (as stated above) that you have a right to use other peoples work if its intended purpose is to be a parody. In which case this is.

Another reasoning behind it is WB and all the studios have insurance incase symbols or anything used gets seen by a third party. For example they wear a Marvel shirt and dont notice it till Marvel is at the door. So the insurance company tosses a few thousand their way and people go be happy.

Lastly its America, everyone thinks suing everyone is the quick and easy way to make a buck. A majority of these people lose.

As long as there a people who like easy money there would be lawsuits, which means there will always be lawsuits.

Don't you know that by now the lawyers of these movie studio think of everything that could possibly go wrong and have all that in small print to protect everbody involved with making the film....I mean they've been sued for almost everything you can imagine by now.

You've got that right. If anything, he probably wasn't even thinking when he first sued. He and the lawyer just saw $$$ that's all.

Forget the inanity of this dude's trivial lawsuit. What's important is the fact that we're losing sight of how awesome Tyson's cameo was in Hangover. I haven't heard anything about him making an "appearance" in Hangover 2, other than obviously his infamous tattoo design.