A Manhattan judge is tired of Beyonce thinking she is above the law. The judge is allowing a video game company to proceed with a $100 million dollar lawsuit against the struggling singer, according to Page Six.
In court documents, the Gat Five company contends they were forced to lay off 70 employees when Beyonce walked away from a $20 million video game deal in 2010.
According to Page Six, Gate Five said it was scheduled to sign a deal with its financier on Dec. 6, 2010 — and they claim Beyoncé knew that the financing was set when she sashayed away from the agreement without warning on Dec. 3.
Beyonce’s lawyers countered that they were within their rights to walk away from the deal for a game called “Starpower: Beyoncé” because Gate Five didn’t have its financing in place.
But Judge Charles Ramos isn’t buying Beyonce’s argument. “You continue to negotiate right up until the time you pull the plug. That is not going to work with me,” Ramos told Beyoncé’s lawyers.
Finally, a judge who cannot be bought of with Beyonce and Jay Z’s money!
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I crack up laughing every time I see Beyonce pretending to read that upside down book
Oh Be
ce
O boy
Aww shyt.. Let the fukkery begin
Struggling singer? Ha! Well let me just go ahead and speak to all the stans now. Hey yall! Cause they will be here in 5.4.3.2.1
By getting to use her name in relation to their project long enough to get financing without having to pay her anything sounds like a come up for them.
Bey looks REALLY pretty in that pic….I always liked her with darker hair!
Y’all know ain’t nothing coming out of this. Lol. Celebrities always get away with things, I’m sure this will be brushed under the rug soon.
Sistah Big Bones A.K.A Iheart says:
Aww shyt.. Let the fukkery begin
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Now watch Sandra not give us a new post til 543 pm
@SANDRA
Notice they made sure uou couldnt see a title and they got the biggest book she could hold!
Knowing she only half way finished with “Green Eggs and Ham.”
Very pretty picture of Bey…
Isn’t getting sued apart of being a celebrity?
Good Morning one and all HAPPY FRIDAY!!
Let the ignance and
start in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…
I’m going to the
I like this pic
I guess I better grab my
and 
<—really Triscuits cracked black pepper crackers and water
Sandra Rose says:
I crack up laughing every time I see Beyonce pretending to read that upside down book
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Hershey that
that gravie 
I saw it yesterday but it seems worse today 
Wait, THEY got financing and she decided not to sign a deal???
Maaaaaaaayne GTFOHWTBS!!!!
Man, I just don’t care™ says:
@SANDRA
Notice they made sure uou couldnt see a title and they got the biggest book she could hold!
Knowing she only half way finished with “Green Eggs and Ham.”
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Green Eggs and Ham
Not speaking to Hershey on account of that gravi
Why everybody acting like something bad about to happen? Haha.
@Sandra I am on my bberry PLEASE say that book is not upside down
If she don’t pay these fools and make this go away.
*lurk mode*
i really like her with darker hair
@ Jenie, she’s showing us how flexible she ill…she said I can do er’thang them lil btyches can do and then some
<—–gravi of my daughter's prom shoes!
Hey Bey
Was this supposed to be a dancing game like the Michael Jackson Experience? If so, i’m mad at her cause I would’ve purchased it.
Hershey
Man, I just don’t care™ says:
@SANDRA
Notice they made sure uou couldnt see a title and they got the biggest book she could hold!
Knowing she only half way finished with “Green Eggs and Ham.”
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Man, I just don’t care™ says:
@SANDRA
Notice they made sure uou couldnt see a title and they got the biggest book she could hold!
Knowing she only half way finished with “Green Eggs and Ham.”
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OTB dont lurk bew, come out & dance wit me :2dance: <—Single Ladies routine
Sandra stole my joke.
Hershey says:
@ Jenie, she’s showing us how flexible she ill…she said I can do er’thang them lil btyches can do and then some
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@CDFenty
WHERE IS YOU GOING WITH THAT GRAVI????
Beyonce disnt even sign a contract with them. In ehat basis are they suing? And they damn sure werent going to profit $100 million.
They should hve been laughed outta court.
For the deal to not look like thirst it would have had to come out like, the same week as the album that Single Ladies was on. I wonder if it was a timing thing? But yeah, it’ll be settled.
& had that not said Beyonce, at first glance I thought that was Tisha Campbell-Martin.
Cute pic though. I don’t see anything coming from this.
“struggling” “sashay” Riiiiiighttt…
Uh uh OTB
<—-me dragging you back in
Just take a ___/ and enjoy
Fe i dont actually think she did anything wrong but in keeping w the no drama theme, its not a good look.
It does look like Gina’s apple head-muscle butt!
@MAN
But Beyonce did finish “Hop On Pop”. It reminded her of foreplay with Jay.
Waddup OTBizzle?
Fashion
His I-brows are snatched for the gawwds aint they
CD FENTY says:
Fashion
His I-brows are snatched for the gawwds aint
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Awww, A Kid Fury saying. i haven’t even watched TV this week watching his videos!
CD FENTY says:
Fashion
His I-brows are snatched for the gawwds aint they
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OHHH NOOOO I just saw this ONE!!!!
The one I was talking about was Chris Brown with the Ike Turner wig!!!
Yso this is why I hate I
u sometimes 
You are saying that’s her equivalent of 50 shades of Gray?
:offtopi: What’s this I hear Serena trying to rap now
Hop on Pop.
Ever been in a friggin fantabulous mood only to get to work and have it ruined by an aggravating narcissistic azzwipe that doesn’t seem to realize u can cost his little ungrateful azz his job??
@OTB
I hear you…her guilt in this is all relative is how I see it…
Two sides will always see shyt differently no matter what…
I like the shoes Gypsy
It will look great with her dress!
Cute picture @Cocoa!
H-Townmama ( I let Fayla whip it REAL GOOD) says:
You are saying that’s her equivalent of 50 shades of Gray?
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That book is GOOD, so far.
@Gyps
with that lil black midget Fury. 
I am so in
@OTB
U right, she disnt do anything wrong. She bet not
pay a dime or everyone will try the same aproach!
Sue with the only goal of finding a settlement.
YSoSrs says:
@MAN
But Beyonce did finish “Hop On Pop”. It reminded her of foreplay with Jay.
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Hey Gyp! I hope little gyps prom is fab! :wave:
@Cocoa
I will live vicariously through the discussions on here I guess.
That’s what I keep hearing but i have no desire to read it.
So the deaf mashed potato eater(she can really hear) gets to work today and she is slamming shyt, putting her personal belonging in a box, not answering her phone and at her desk crying. I pulled her into the restroom to tell her that I’m not getting in the middle of their BS but all that is unnecessary. If you mad at them bytches tell them! I mean as long as the higher ups have talked to you and you still have a job don’t give them the satisfaction of seeing you cry.
I mean she doesn’t do her work but shyt I aint about to let them fuggers get the best of me. I just hope she don’t eat no potatoes today!
Not a Huge Bey fan but she does look mighty tasty in that pic…
Morning Folks
Thanks Gypsy!
@HTown, I didn’t have the desire either but once I started reading it I became hooked! There are even rumors of making the book a movie.
JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY, WHEN WAS IT DOCUMENTED OR NOTED THAT BEYONCE COULDN’T READ? MOVIE ROLES, COMMERCIAL, AND WRITING MUSIC CONSIST OF READING DOES IT NOT?
I want to go home
Oh sweet baby Jesus 
to actually make a contract legal both parties have to put up money, up front, if not the contract is fraud.
I know I did it with my house, 
<<<<<< It pays to learn the truth about contracts.
Morning Throb
Wasn’t Scandal GOOD last night?
CC
Detective Munch on the case
FINISH THEM 
@Cocoa
They are beginning the process of making the book into a movie this fall…there’s an array of castings for Christian Grey right now…
Thanks guys!
Girl, Kid Fury is my gay crush!
I hate Gypy for talmbout mashed tater girl
MUNCHOSGIRL says:
JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY, WHEN WAS IT DOCUMENTED OR NOTED THAT BEYONCE COULDN’T READ? MOVIE ROLES, COMMERCIAL, AND WRITING MUSIC CONSIST OF READING DOES IT NOT?
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Heard of “Fifty Shades of Grey” but not sure if I want to read it. It’s the contrarian in me. I never want to do what everyone else is doing.
#LoneWolfBtch
@Gypy, I love that dayum Kid Fury!!! That boy is a fool!!
OTB i HATE fone posting
i’m always like 50 comments late by the time my fone posts a comment 
wait. wasnt sammy davis jr illiterate?
naw he just played one on tv
I don’t have a JD degree but ummmmmm help me out here….
1. she never signed a contract
2. she was still negoitating and THEY didn’t have financing
3. she decided to walk away before binding herself to a contract with said company
……………………………..what is she responsible for? How is she liable?
@Fayla
I put up a gravi of Sydney’s first official flat iron….using your whip of course! Mind you my baby has 4C hair!!!! I’m a whip-o-holic baby
These are just jokes people. Maybe Bey is a secret Mensa member or maybe she pays people to read for/to her. Who really gives a sht?
Kid Fury
i’ve only seen 2 of his vids but they were both funny. he is SO cute to me!
Therapist says:
I don’t have a JD degree but ummmmmm help me out here….
1. she never signed a contract
2. she was still negoitating and THEY didn’t have financing
3. she decided to walk away before binding herself to a contract with said company
……………………………..what is she responsible for? How is she liable
and just a plain ole 
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Fe Fe
Yeah It was NICE… But it was Just another reason why I cant run for President.
CC
why do ppl schedule meetings on friday?!
i told the lady point blank i ain’t stayin the whole 2 hours
i’m tryin to sneak out this bytch early and y’all wanna have a meeting from 1 to 3 pm? nig pls :stop:
Is mama H-Town still my gravi?
@Fay, I think he is really cute too
Goooood Morningggggg
Have you heard her speak???
@Candi I want to leave today…I feel like I need to buy me boot in lieu of Mothers Day
YSoSrs says:
These are just jokes people. Maybe Bey is a secret Mensa member or maybe she pays people to read for/to her. Who really gives a sht?
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THANK YOU!
I just get so TIRED of folks taking shyt so SERIOUSLY when it comes to this chick…even when folks go in on Rih I joke back with them and it remains light-hearted….folks love to drag down a Bey thread…sheesh…
HTOWN all i see is the lovely Mama HTown right now
EAZY
What we talking about?
therapist1911 says:
I don’t have a JD degree but ummmmmm help me out here….
1. she never signed a contract
2. she was still negoitating and THEY didn’t have financing
3. she decided to walk away before binding herself to a contract with said company
……………………………..what is she responsible for? How is she liable?
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Thank you, but what her lawyers know they cant speak on it in the court of law, cause they signed a deal with the BAR. and the british have control on what they can present. that is why its is good to study study study and you speak with your lawyers never go to court like you dead.
Phro
Eazy
@Throb
But that sex scene with them was HOTT! Poor Olivia Pope…
CC
Fefe
Igo
MUNCHOSGIRL says:
JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY, WHEN WAS IT DOCUMENTED OR NOTED THAT BEYONCE COULDN’T READ? MOVIE ROLES, COMMERCIAL, AND WRITING MUSIC CONSIST OF READING DOES IT NOT?
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It wasn’t!! If she made it to high school as reported I’m sure she can read. You learn to read in Elementary school.
But don’t sweat it, I think they looking for anything to make fun of her
Awwww Bibi :hugs: Wassa matta? Who I need to :shootsfired:
@Fefe @Sistah with meat on her bones
:hugs: @Bibi
what’s wrong suga???
Morning
Hey HTOWN!!
@Phro, Did you ever figure out a gift for mama Phro since you despise kitten heels and she loves them??
Bey know how to count that cash! She made it thus far with lil problems so I think she knows what she’s doing when it comes to business. They probably mad cus they thought they had a gold mine.
Kerry Washington looks tasty in IGO gravie.
@Fefe, REALLY?!?!?! WHOEVER PLAYS MR. GREY BETTER BE FINE AS HELL. I MEAN, FINE AS HELL! My gf suggested Michael Ealy and HELL TO THE NAH
What’s going down in Big Money Tejas mami?
@Iheart I’m getting her the nice shoes that I want her to have,my sister saw them and said that she would most likely rock them..
Nothing but this bad rain today, I need my bed
EZ
<—2 hrs 15 mins i got left to work
Kerry Washington did look tasty last night…… #Scandal
:hugs: @BIBI
YSoSrs says:
These are just jokes people. Maybe Bey is a secret Mensa member or maybe she pays people to read for/to her. Who really gives a sht?
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True indeed.
I’ve never seen that picture of Beyonce’ before… what a sexy, NATURAL look that is.
Phrozen1der says:
Kerry Washington did look tasty last night…… #Scandal
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She always look tasty
@Phro,
@Eazy
I’m in mine ret nah
A Rhi post is up.
So I took my roommate with me to the track this AM…this negro was hilarious..I told him we would do an easy 400 and then I want to do a 200 meter strideout to start.. this ninja stopped at 50 meters to take a break and then finished it afterwards..
JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY, WHEN WAS IT DOCUMENTED OR NOTED THAT BEYONCE COULDN’T READ? MOVIE ROLES, COMMERCIAL, AND WRITING MUSIC CONSIST OF READING DOES IT NOT?
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Sum bodee senn Fantasia a tweet plez to ax her if this is posuble.
Thans
@Therapist This is true!
@iHeart
@Cocoa
Yeah, the men who are up for the part are all striking and good looking in their own way…the only reason why I even knew about the book is because people were campaigning for my favorite soap star to get the part months ago…
phro what track do u work out at?
i keep saying i’m going to the umd track but it never happens
i tried to run up a hill one block and i was like fvck this yo
snoopy was lookin back at me like why’d we stop? 
@Candi PG Sports and Learning Complex they have a free Indoor and Outdoor facility..the indoor is populated by the “elderly” in the early morning tho..:rofl:
What’s his name Fefe? I want to see if he’s Mr. Grey material (in my eyes.)
oh that’s close to me. lemme go when the old folks go so there’s no judging
@Candi I told my roommate he didn’t have to run my pace just try and finish that ninja had me
then when I said let’s do a lap cooldown then dip he going to say “that’s it”…I was like fugga we can run if you really want to!!
@Candi I go as soon as it open so I can be back in the bed to get some more sleep before the office
@ Munchos…R.Kelly is illiterate as hell and look how many songs he’s written.
Not saying she can’t read, just saying, somethings can be worked around if you use your strengths to compensate for your shortcomings.
MOrning Everybody! :wave:
@Cocoa
His name is James Scott, he’s a British actor…you’d have to watch the soap to get the FULL effect though, his character on the soap is very Christian Grey-like
:hugs: @Dimpz
negotiations can break down at any time and NEVER hire personnel until a contract is signed. HOWEVER, this broad is always being called out for shadiness in the game. where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
@Dimpz
and 
@HTown…I sorry, I had stay I was gone STAY my ass off topic in these posts.
@ lil mama’s hair, i’m thinking of straightening mine for Sunday. Did you put the whip on the hair or just on her scalp?
lol @ Phro’s roomate!!!
Phro I may need to link up with u and run
I had said***
Now I look illiterate.
@Therapist I just looked at him and pointed to the finish line as in you neeed to get across that line
That’s cool,let me know!
free says:
negotiations can break down at any time and NEVER hire personnel until a contract is signed. HOWEVER, this broad is always being called out for shadiness in the game. where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
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So you identify that they should have NEVER hire personnel until the contract was signed but yet somehow point the finger at her for her shadiness in the game.
ooops…..sorry I’m going back to work! I’m not on the defense team lol
@Dimpz
The stylist greased her scalp with it and put a little on her hair. She used it as a heat protectant and the results were great! She is still rocking it straight and this is from the last weekend in April. I will be washing and twisting it this weekend though.
therapist1911 says:
I don’t have a JD degree but ummmmmm help me out here….
1. she never signed a contract
2. she was still negoitating and THEY didn’t have financing
3. she decided to walk away before binding herself to a contract with said company
……………………………..what is she responsible for? How is she liable?
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Actually, financing was in place on 3 Dec, she met with them on numerous occassions (over a few months) as well as the design team and verbally agreed to the video game concept adding her ideas, voice, likeness, concepts thus creating a verbal contract. She knew they hired 70+ people to create this game for her. She walked away after the game was created, because she was being a diva, and felt like she can. She best get that check book ready and make this go away quietly.
My nipples are hard!
I use my whip everyday. I have been pulling it back into a pony but it lays my hair down right nice!
therapist1911 says: So you identify that they should have NEVER hire personnel until the contract was signed but yet somehow point the finger at her for her shadiness in the game.
ooops…..sorry I’m going back to work! I’m not on the defense team lol
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soooo, we don’t often hear folks in the industry talking about how shady bey is in her dealings???
Is this the deal I read that her daddy advised her to stick to and she walked away from it?
I swear I miss her daddy!
@ Fe, he don’t look young enough
handsome man, though.
I mean how many songs has she claimed to have written that she didn’t actually write??
@ Free…NO! She’s a step away from an angel.
R. KELLY ILLITERATE? NEVER HEARD THAT! I LET GOOGLE BE MY FRIEND…
HE SAID
“I don’t even read really.” “I don’t even read really and I’m not afraid to say that,” Kelly said. “My cousins and brothers used to tease me ‘you can’t even read right. How you think you’re going to come up?’ The only reason I graduated from grammar school is because I had a great jump shot.”
@ Phro…ALOT! I think that kinda died down a lil after that Neyo incident. I find it a lil odd that they havent’ worked together since though considering how big of a hit Irreplaceable was.
@Dimpz
Right!
Phrozen1der says:
I mean how many songs has she claimed to have written that she didn’t actually write??
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UH OHHH!!! Here’s that gust of wind coming in!!!!
@ Muncho…I know ppl that went to school with him, I know his cousin, he struggled like hell all through school and lets be honest ppl have passed out of pity and ppl not wanting to hold them back if they are talented. My grandmother’s husband is 80yrs old, illiterate and lives a better life than lots of ppl with educations. Resources play a big part in survival too. Lots of ppl feel education isn’t important because of their other life skills.
free says:
therapist1911 says: So you identify that they should have NEVER hire personnel until the contract was signed but yet somehow point the finger at her for her shadiness in the game.
ooops…..sorry I’m going back to work! I’m not on the defense team lol
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soooo, we don’t often hear folks in the industry talking about how shady bey is in her dealings???
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I CAN HONESTLY WITH NO PREJUDICE SAY I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF PEOPLE IN THE INDUSTRY SAY BEYONCE IS/WAS SHADY. MATHEW YEAH, BEYONCE NO.
MzDimplez1123 says:
@ Phro…ALOT! I think that kinda died down a lil after that Neyo incident. I find it a lil odd that they havent’ worked together since though considering how big of a hit Irreplaceable was.
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Neyo was like, BISH PLEASE, That’s my Shyt!!!!
@ Phro…..Rih, who I don’t think is as good a singer as BEY, STAYS working with NEYO because he writes GOOD songs that work with the person he’s writing for’s voice. I mean if you have someone that
1. Works with your voice
2. Writes a great song
3. Started out under your husband
What reason would you have not to work with them again?
MzDimplez1123 says:
@ Muncho…I know ppl that went to school with him, I know his cousin, he struggled like hell all through school and lets be honest ppl have passed out of pity and ppl not wanting to hold them back if they are talented. My grandmother’s husband is 80yrs old, illiterate and lives a better life than lots of ppl with educations. Resources play a big part in survival too. Lots of ppl feel education isn’t important because of their other life skills.
——-NO, I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS TRUE. I HAVE A 15YR OLD SON, WHO BY ALL MEANS IS NOT MOTIVATED AT ALL IN SCHOOL. CAN HE DO THE WORK? YES, DOES HE DO IT? NO. THIS HAS BEEN SINCE PRE-K. THEY HAVE TRIED TO LABEL HIM AND ALL, HE HAS BE RETAINED ONLY ONCE. BECAUSE I REQUSTED IT. HE IS IN HIGH SCHOOL NOW, TEACHER CALLED ME TO TELL ME THAT MY SON SITS IN CLASS, DOESN’T DO THE WORK. I ASKED THE TEACHER WAS HE BEING DISRUPTIVE, HE SAID NO, HE JUST SITS THERE. SO I KNOW HOW A CHILD CAN BE “PUSHED” THROUGH SCHOOL.
@ Fashion……………….Chile Please! Neyo wasn’t having that shyt. I still tripping that she stood on stage, on camera and claimed she wrote that shyt like she really did! That song was completed before she ever came in contact with it. She changed the arrangements a lil but, she said that shyt like she wrote the words. I like his version of it too though, it’s more subtle, laid back.
@ Munchos….My bad, I apologize.
I read out of context.
I’ve have ppl dispute that before, claiming it would be impossible for him to be the writer he is if he can’t read.
MzDimplez1123 says:
@ Munchos….My bad, I apologize.
I read out of context. I’ve have ppl dispute that before, claiming it would be impossible for him to be the writer he is if he can’t read.
AT THE SAME TIME HE DIDN’T SAY HE CAN’T READ, HE SAID HE DON’T READ. WHICH COULD BE UNDERSTANDABLE, MAYBE HE IS DYSLEXIC….ijs. BUT I NEVER HEARD THAT UNTIL TODAY.
To create a game when there’s a verbal contract in place, you need to hire staff she may be contractually obligated to at least compensate for their work, IMO
@ Munchos…True but, although he’s a music genius, he isn’t very bright. His family is pretty jacked up too. They’re abusive towards women and act like big ass, grown ass adult kids.
When he almost got busted for that tape, his cousin’s comment was, He shouldn’t have made that damned tape. Um, how’s about he should have kept his dyck out of that lil girl?
MzDimplez1123 says:
@ Fashion……………….Chile Please! Neyo wasn’t having that shyt. I still tripping that she stood on stage, on camera and claimed she wrote that shyt like she really did! That song was completed before she ever came in contact with it. She changed the arrangements a lil but, she said that shyt like she wrote the words. I like his version of it too though, it’s more subtle, laid back.
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Neyo handled that shyt!!!! His protected his shine!!! He was like, No MOFO that’s mine.
I repsected him for that because e was friends with Jayz and he stil;was not having it. You know a lot of artist like to kiss his arse.
umm… respected, he, still.
Note: Do not type and laugh
@ Fashion…..
Same here
Hershey says:
To create a game when there’s a verbal contract in place, you need to hire staff she may be contractually obligated to at least compensate for their work, IMO
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When did verbal contract hold up in court? Judge Judy? People’s Court? Judge Mathais?
These are serious questions!! From what I understand it has to be in writng for it to be binding. The contract will point out who is liable for what and what recourse will be taken if one or both parties don’t complete thier obligation.
IMO it’s the company’s fault for “jumping the gun” and hiring staff before she signed the contract. Morally she may be guilty but legally she isn’t.
I’ve always heard about the Neyo/Beyonce Irreplacable fiasco on blogs. Never read or seen the footage. I do believe it tho.
Beyonce/Destiny Child makes sure they get writing credit….smart business move
Most artist end up broke after their star power fizzle and find themselves the subject of many of our jokes. It’s not right….but it’s okay
@hershey
I’m glad somebody said it! People ever heard of a verbal agreement? And where in the article did it say beyonce or her team never signed anything? It just said she walked away because the other company didnt have it’s financing in place…Which is untrue of course. Just because the company was set to “formally” sign the papers 3 days later, didn’t mean they had no financing. Of course they had financing and they were showed something along these lines in order for them to even bring about a collaborative deal with her. Beyonce got offered more money from another company and decided to bail out on this deal. I don’t blame the judge, how dare you come into my courtroom with the sorry excuse regarding financing, when they knew the company indeed had financing, and simply didn’t want to disclose to the court the real reason for backing out of the deal. The Court is not stupid, and knew there’s no way they would have gotten that far into that deal, had Beyonce or her company, not felt financing was stable. And indeed financing was stable, because no doubt in court beyonce’s attorneys could not show any evidence of the deal falling through due to financing…(evidence of this would be showing the finance company backing out, maybe causing the company to then scramble and find an alternate investor) the deal fail through because beyonce absent of integrity, but full of greed, walked away from the deal. And unless her attorney’s have better evidence of failing finances on behalf of Gate Five, beyonce will indeed lose this case, and she will no doubt settle out of court.
therapist1911 says:
Hershey says:
To create a game when there’s a verbal contract in place, you need to hire staff she may be contractually obligated to at least compensate for their work, IMO
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When did verbal contract hold up in court? Judge Judy? People’s Court? Judge Mathais?
These are serious questions!! From what I understand it has to be in writng for it to be binding. The contract will point out who is liable for what and what recourse will be taken if one or both parties don’t complete thier obligation.
IMO it’s the company’s fault for “jumping the gun” and hiring staff before she signed the contract. Morally she may be guilty but legally she isn’t.
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Therapist perhaps you should look a little farther than a televised semi-scripted court show. Verbal contracts are enforced every day, all day to include this one. Her name and status mean nothing, and after digging further, she did sign documents giving the “go ahead” in regards to the video game’s creation
@hershey
Which is why I said that my question was a serious one due to my limited legal experience.
@therapist911
No, you are wrong…A verbal contract can and indeed is binding in business agreements if you can prove certain aspects. For instance, beyonce and/or her company had to agree to this deal. That can be an oral agreement. Now you’d have to prove she agreed. She no doubt collaborated with Gat Five on the product to be sold, ok’d the product, was allowed to make changes and have personal input on the product, understood what it took in order to create this product (staff), and pretty much was very much a part of the product’s existence all the way through. I’m sure the company made her aware of what it would take to produce the product, and didn’t say no, stop, we don’t have an agreement. I’m pretty sure the company told her the cost, she didn’t say no, stop, we don’t have an agreement. Failure to do that indicated her consent. And trust and believe I’m sure she had to sign off on things along the way, had creative input, discussed pricing and costs, etc. Presenting these things in a court of law shows INTENT and that she approved of the deal. The court will consider all of those factors. And she never said I wasn’t happy with the product, we couldn’t agree on “etc.”, she simply said i walked away because the company didn’t have the money. It’s the flimsiest of excuses and it didn’t fly. That’s insulting a court’s intelligence to suggest she got that far into that deal, and didn’t think they had the financing. Absurd! I’m sure prototypes were made, money was put into this project already. All of which beyonce and her team was aware of. She definitely has a responsibility to at the least, limit Gat Five’s costs by offering them something.
@ Mimi
she gone learn today huntee, she gone learn today. Just watch this will be “privately settled out of court for undisclosed amount of damages” just watch. An agreement is agreement, I don’t care if it’s thru text, email, napkin, snail mail, verbally, it’s still an agreement. If she had Matty in her corner none of this would be going on, instead she has Joe Camel who’s busy trying to stay forever young and forever erect 
Did some research…
Verbal contracts are, in many cases, legally enforceable and binding on the parties who make the agreement. However, proving the terms of a verbal contract can be difficult, and usually result in a “he said, she said” disagreement. Additionally, in certain cases, verbal agreements are prohibited from enforcement by law, even if you can prove the terms of the contract.
@ Therapist gotcha
An agreement is agreement, I don’t care if it’s thru text, email, napkin, snail mail, verbally, it’s still an agreement
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With the exception of verbally, all those are considered “in writing” and can be proven
@ Therapist it’s a little more than verbal, she signed documents giving the go ahead to proceed with the video games creation. These documents REQUIRED the gaming company to hire additional staff to create the game. She also met with them over serveral months and gave direction/input as to how her characters should look, what music should be played…she’s screwed
You forgot “/thesis”.
@ OTB
YES INDEED
LOL @hershey…..
And yes, i do believe if her father was still on her team, this would not have happened because crack head or not, he is a shrewd business man who knows how to get around contracts and how to have contract details or lack thereof details work in your favor. Because in the past, even though Beyonce reported laid claim to writing music she had not written, Matthew had those contracts so tight that the person still lost and beyonce won.
Just like George Zimmerman’s parents, they bailed him out and never held him reponsible for anything. On that wet night in February, he wrote a check his arse can’t cash and his parents can’t bail him out of.
Beyonce…the chickens have come home to roost…