NFL may not like it, but it could be trained Not like us trial.
As explained by Michael McCann of Sportico.com, the role of the league would be witness, not the defendant. Drake, who continued the universal music group for defamation on the blow of Kendrick Lamar, alleys into an amendment to his existing civilian complaint that the Word revision During the performance of Lamar of the song at Half-time Super Bowl Lix show proved that UMG knew that the words of the songs were problematic.
The performance of the Super Bowl deleted the term “pedophile” of the song. Drake maintains that the League and other people involved in the presentation of the program “understood the words” certified pedophile “to be unacceptable in a program to millions of listeners” and that “almost everyone understands that it is defamatory to wrongly mark someone” as pedophile “. Drake’s modified complaint says that Lamar “would not have been authorized to occur during the performance of the Super Bowl” unless he omits the word “pedophile”.
And, yes, call someone a pedophile if this person is not a pedophile creates a potential responsibility. In this case, Drake continued UMG and not Lamar, since UMG published the song. (Based on McCann’s article, it seems that there is a contractual subsext associated with the case, because UMG also holds publication rights on Drake songs.)
The NFL refused the request for comments from Sportico. It will not be as simple as the assignment is served. The NFL must produce information, documents and / or testimonies concerning any conversation concerning the deletion of the word “pedophile” of performance. Everything will be the equitable game – emails, sms, conversations, etc.
The objective will be to reach the truth to explain why the word was rubbed. And Drake’s lawyers hope to show that the NFL wanted the word to be deleted because the NFL knew that the inclusion of this would cause responsibility for this too. For what? Because the NFL knows that it is problematic to publicly label someone a pedophile.
Since Drake is a public figure, a higher standard applies. He must prove real wickedness, which means in this context that the responsible party knew that he was false or acted with reckless contempt for the truth or the falsehood of the complaint.
Whatever the way everything is going on, the NFL will play a role in terms of the removal of the “pedophile” of the words of half-time, and all communications / all communications concerning the question of whether the change must be brought.
