Tyson's tattooist sues over 'exploitation of his artwork' in film 
The face of Mike Tyson is at the centre of Hollywood's latest high-stakes intellectual property dispute, after the man who designed the ex-boxer's distinctive facial tattoo filed a lawsuit against the studio behind the sequel to The Hangover, claiming that film-makers have illegally reappropriated his artwork. The tattoo designer S. Victor Whitmill has asked a federal court in Missouri to grant an injunction preventing Warner Brothers releasing the movie this month, citing what he calls the "unauthorised exploitation" of the design he inked around Tyson's left eye [...] Trailers for the film, which is set in Thailand, suggest that the plot involves the character Stu Price, played by the comedian Ed Helms, waking up after a night out to discover that he has an identical tattoo to the boxer's. Under US intellectual property law, copyright applies to all registered works depicted in films whether they are paintings on a wall, books quoted by a character, or songs on a soundtrack... Independent