Konami and/or Kojima Productions could be looking at a possible lawsuit in the near future regrading claims of using someone's likeness without permission.
Making things a bit more interesting is the actor they used for scanning looks very similar to the doctor while some of the stuff teased or speculated about Phantom Pain is stuff the doctor has talked about or does in real life. Also the whole issue started because people on NeoGAF and Twitter kept bugging the doctor about it which is how he managed to find out what was happening.
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He told me that he has never been in any kind of contact with Konami or Kojima, that he had never even heard of them before all of this happened and he doesn't understand why they used him as a template for that character without asking him permission. I pointed out his resemblance to the actor from whom Konami actually did the scanning for the three-dimensional model, but he tells me that his lawyer has suggested something different that involves a conference held in Cyprus:
"One of the sponsors was coincidentally a game developer. Maybe some people there...I don't know...maybe they recorded the thing from certain angles, maybe the cameras were set up in the right spots... I do not know. It's just a hypothesis, but maybe it's not too far-fetched."
I pointed it out that this seemed rather unlikely and that there was probably a simpler explanation, but he interrupted me:
“To be completely honest with you: this isn’t such a bad thing. Since my project requires a lot of money, Mr.Kojima will be able to say he had a part in HEAVEN [the name of his head transplant procedure] despite the fact that he probably never intended to.”
Dr. Canavero isn’t just surprised by all this, but actually rather put out; he’s even thinking of suing Konami over it. “I went to the Polizia Postale [the authority in charge of this kind of thing here in Italy] and filed a complaint towards Mr.Kojima. There is also a Twitter account that is not mine, so I reported this to the Police too, they will now investigate both the matters. In the meantime my lawyer is sending a letter to the Japanese company [Konami] to ask for compensation [for using my image without permission].”
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http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2015/04/22/m...lid-conspiracy