WWE and 2K Get Extension in Bloodline Lawsuit as Indie Promoter Claims Sequence Was Copied

TLDR

WWE and 2K have received a court extension until February 20 to respond to a lawsuit filed by Arkansas independent promoter Nathaniel Tatha-Nanandji, who claims they copied an audiovisual sequence he created for WCWA Wrestling's faction Tier 1 beginning in 2019. The lawsuit alleges that WWE introduced a substantially similar presentation for The Bloodline faction around September 2021 and later licensed it for use in WWE 2K video games, with Tatha-Nanandji claiming ownership of the structure and sequencing of the full presentation rather than individual poses or gestures.