Angry over the use of his face in an Indian software
company’s mobile phone application without permission, Australian
batsman Ricky Ponting is contemplating legal action.
Ponting was not aware that the 99c iPhone app “Face Guess Cricket” was
using his face.
“We weren’t aware of it and we’ll be
issuing action against them straight away for the use of his
intellectual property,” Ponting’s manager James Henderson was quoted as
saying by the Herald Sun.
The Indian firm AHI
Infotech had also apparently used the faces of retired greats Glenn
McGrath, Steve Waugh and Shane Warne in its application without their
permission.
“It’s news to me,” McGrath’s manager
Warren Craig, said. “We have no relationship with (the developer). And
we had to look it up to see what Face Guess Cricket was,” he said.
The application asks users to guess a cricketer’s
identity from close-ups of his face. The AHI Infotech’s website also
lists a number of iPhone game apps similar to Face Guess Cricket.
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