I have always wondered why this doesn’t seem to ever happen. I’m no lawyer, but couldn’t a case be made that when a big company like Nike commissions a skate video which it uses to help sell their stuff, doesn’t that kind of make them responsible in some way?
With board companies, they probably don’t have enough assets to make them worth suing, but Nike or Adidas is a different story.
I’ve wondered if now that skating is creeping into the broader culture if property owners will start trying to lawyer up if they find out their property ended up being used in promotional material for Nike, especially since a skate video could be thought of as a collection of video clips of crimes being committed.