“We truly hope that we will not get to any lawsuit, and believe that there is no reason to get there,” Mizrachi states.

Now the girl looks a bit more generic, it seems.Įrez Mizrachi, whose firm Furth, Wilensky, Mizrachi, Knaani represents Talo Games and several other startups based in Israel, clarifies that Cyrus and team are not “suing” Talo Games at this time, but have rather requested that the company stop infringing on Cyrus’s rights by removing the game from iTunes. Players of “Flying Cyrus” may have noticed it’s been updated in recent days – it no longer has the same artwork and icon as before. Today, Talo Games’ creator Tal Dahabani tells us that “Flying Cyrus” has reached 5 million downloads.ĭahabani and his lawyer have confirmed to TechCrunch that they received complaints from Cyrus’s lawyers, and are currently trying to resolve the conflict.Ī representative for Miley Cyrus replied “no comment” when reached about this matter. In an interview with an Israeli publication earlier this month, Talo Games shared that the “Flying Cyrus” game had surpassed a million downloads since its mid-February release.

In Talo Games’ particular clone, the “Flappy Bird” in question was replaced by a blond girl’s floating head, which bounces in between wrecking balls, instead of the green pipes the little bird had once tried to avoid. Variations of that addicting, but frustrating simple game have since skyrocketed to success, as users went in search of alternatives. The game, for those unfamiliar, is one of the many popular “Flappy Bird” clones that have filled the App Store’s top charts after the original was pulled by its creator, who claimed he couldn’t handle the attention of having a viral hit. According to Cyrus’s lawyers, “Flying Cyrus” infringes on their client’s rights, and represents an “unauthorized use” of Cyrus’s name and trademarks. Israeli company Talo Games has been asked by Miley Cyrus’s legal team to remove “ Flying Cyrus – Wrecking Ball,” currently the fifth most popular free iPhone application in the U.S., from the iTunes App Store, we’ve learned.

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