All tag results for 'copyright infringement'

You don't mess with George!

Yesterday, music icon George Clinton filed a lawsuit against ten separate European companies for "trademark infringement, copyright infringement, and fraud."

According to the lawsuit, the ten companies "assumed 'unauthorized use of Funkadelic trademark, and Clinton's name, likeness and image for the unauthorized use, sale, and commercial exploitation of these infringing products.'"

George is demanding that he be granted a jury trial for this case, and he's seeking "unspecified damages, attorney fees," and lawsuit costs.

What do U think? Does Clinton have a case here???

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And so the war escalates!

In light of Abercrombie & Fitch issuing a press release last month claiming that they had offered The Situation a 'substantial' amount of money to stop wearing their clothes, the Jersey Shore star has not only claimed that he hasn't seen any offer, but has now had his lawyers send the company a cease-and-desist letter for what he claims to be an infringement on his legal copyright by printing several of his slogans - including The Fitchuation and GTL Fitch - on their t-shirts!

According to the letter:

"We doubt that you could provide a valid reason why you used these specific designs, except to create a (false) association with our client's goodwill."

Hey! We can't help but agree!

Seems pretty tasteless to condemn his antics to the extent that they don't want him to wear their clothes, and then go ahead and cash in on his popularity by ripping off his slogans!

We can't see how they intend to argue their way around this one!

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Tags: abercrombie and fitch, cease and desist, copyright infringement, jersey shore, lawsuit, slogans, the situation, trademark

What a huge win for Bratz!

Creator of the doll line, MGA Entertainment, Inc. was awarded $225 million in punitive damages, attorney fees, and costs.

In the lawsuit that we previously told you about, Mattel toy company was found guilty of stealing MGA's ideas through "corporate espionage." Mattel was accused of using trade secrets that didn't belong to them, which resulted in a $85 million win to MGA. The rest of the $137 million will cover fees and costs that MGA incurred while defending themselves against Mattel's original copyright infringement claims.

MGA's chief executive officer Isaac Larian said:

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Paging Mr. Flintstone! We have some bad news for you.

Lil Wayne was hit with a $15 million lawsuit by a company who claims that he stole the song BedRock, which became a huge hit in 2009.

The Georgia production company Done Deal Enterprises accuses the rapper of stealing the song from them and is suing for copyright infringement. They've also named Universal Music Group, Cash Money Records, and Young Money Entertainment as defendants in the lawsuit.

That's a lot of paper for just one song! You best defend yourself, Weezy.

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Tags: bedrock, copyright infringement, lawsuit, song, weezy

Yeesh! Close call, DreamWorks Animation!

The studio has just won a lawsuit from Terence Dunn, a self-described "writer-producer-teacher-philosopher" and the CEO of a company named Zen-Bear Ince., who pressed charges against them in June of 2010 for breach of implied contract on the Kung Fu Panda series when he asserted that the idea of a “spiritual kung-fu fighting panda bear” had been brought to them by him in November 2001 with the expectation that he'd be included in the project. Furthermore, he came up with the idea that bear was "adopted by five animal friends in the forest (a tiger, a leopard, a dragon, a snake and a crane), whose destiny is foretold by an old and wise sage, Turquoise Tortoise, and who comes of age and fulfills his destiny as a martial arts hero and spiritual avatar."

Despite all of this,

Tags: copyright infringement, dreamworks animation, jayme gordon, kung fu panda, lawsuit, terence dunn

What the duck!?!

As you can read above, Lady Gaga's personal YouTube account–ladygagaofficial–has been terminated due to 3rd party copyright infringement claims.

Say whaaaaaaaaaaaat???

We can't imagine anyone wanting to get Gaga in trouble for this. Seriously.

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She just can't catch a break with this one, can she?!

Rihanna is once again facing legal trouble for the music video for her single, S&M, just four months after David LaChapelle filed a lawsuit claiming she ripped off his work!

Apparently, 19-year-old Phillipp Paulus has alleged that a sequence in the clip, which featured the pop star held against a wall with plastic wrape and black tape in X-marks, directly rips off a series of fashion photos he did called Paperworld!

They attempted to settle with Universal Music Group, but after the agreement fell apart, Paulus now plans to sue.

His lawyer, Philip Jakober, explains:

Tags: copyright infringement, david lachapelle, lawsuit, music video, paperworld, philip jakober, phillip paulus, riri, s and m, universal music group