Billionaire Hologram Producer Alki David Responds To Lawsuit By Roy Orbison’s Sons
Our article last week about the heirs of Roy Orbison filing a lawsuit to block what they say is a shakedown by a hologram company owned by Alkiviades David has drawn a strong denial from the Greek billionaire.
New technologies often lead to legal battles, and with music related holograms, augmented reality and virtual reality all gaining traction, expect a plethora of lawsuits over who controls rights that barely existed a decade ago.
From Alkiviades David:
"I’m very concerned for the Orbison family, They are being misled by BASE’s Gary Shoefield who we fired for gross incompetence and for stealing proprietary information and IP. He and BASE CEO Brian Becker, are misleading the Orbisons and other estates by making promises they can’t keep: BASE has no legal way to present holograms without licensing our technology, as Fox, Sony, ABC/Disney, Universal and so many others have.
I love Roy Orbison’s music and am determined to honor his legacy. Our production is well underway. I hope the family will see that Gary and Brian are taking advantage of both sides, and let us all get back to work. We’ve just opened Billie Holiday Alive! at the Hologram USA Theater on Hollywood Boulevard to terrific response – and our Jackie Wilson show will debut in February. An amazing Bernie Mac hologram is in full production as well. In all these cases, the estates are ecstatic with the results."
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STOP calling projection technique of dead artists – hologram or holographic! The projection is a modern illusion technique – Peppers Ghost developed around 1860 by Henry Pepper. Today the projection of dead or alive artists are animated computer films using videoprojections to an half transparent mirror. Hologram is a Nobelprized Lasertechnique from 1971 invented by professor Dennis Gabor. The lasertechnique without a camera, Holography, has nothing to do with Peppers Ghost videoprojection technique.
Companies misusing the Nobelprized Lasertechnique that no technique can copy, are happy for all PR they recieve free of charge from Press/Media who don´t do the research before calling a videoprojection for hologram. Click at Wikipedia and read about Holography, Hologram and Laser. Click here to understand what Peppers Ghost is https://hologram.se/peppers-ghost/
What Press/Media is doing by calling a modernized projection technique Hologram and Holographic is like saying: A car is a bike!