Copyright Violations

Hollywood Steals More People’s Copyrights Again Judd Aptow A Repeat Offender The 2007 Universal “ everything is on fire ” Pictures movie “ Knocked Up ” starring Katherine Heigl is the subject of a copyright infringement lawsuit filed last year. In the lawsuit, an author, Rebecca Eckler, contends her preexisting copyrighted 2004 book “ Knocked Up : Confessions of a Hip Mother-To Be” was infringed, down to the book cover. There are overwhelming similarities between the two and knowing Hollywood, I wouldn’t put it past them to do this. The copyright infringing piece of garbage “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan” I believe her, ... Read Full Story

Apr. 15th, 2007 PHOTOGRAPHER TO FILE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT ON GENE SIMMONS Gene Simmons of the rock band KISS facing another lawsuit... 2007-04-16 07:46:30 - Associate Press Newswire KISS bassist GENE SIMMONS has been notified he's violated another photographers copyrights. Edward Przydzial of Beverly Hills states; "Mr. Simmons has stolen and used/abused my copyrights as far back as 1997 when they returned to the classic make-up era of the 70's... He has used my images on merchandise magazines, books, kisstory, metal edge magazine kiss specials and more. He has made no attempt to pay me or request usage in the proper protocol." Przydzial from East ... Read Full Story

The outcome of the Viacom vs Google’s YouTube is still unclear but what’s even more confusing is how a judge could order Google to violate existing privacy law, according to some legal experts. We reported a couple of days ago about the $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube and how users may worry where their personal information ends up. Google is very willing to help in this matter but did state that it will ask Viacom to respect users’ privacy, but can we trust that this information will never be used in the future and how can we tell if it has? YouTube ... Read Full Story

Carol Burnett has filed a $2 million copyright infringement lawsuit against 20th Century Fox, claiming her cleaning woman character was portrayed on the animated series "Family Guy. The U.S. District Court lawsuit, which was filed Thursday, said the Fox show didn't have the 73-year-old comedian's permission to include her cleaning woman character, Charwoman, in an April 2006 episode. The episode shows Charwoman as a porno-shop maid, and it uses what the lawsuit called an "altered version" of Burnett's theme music. The characters in the show also perform Burnett's signature ear tug, the lawsuit said. Besides copyright infringement, Burnett alleges 20th Century Fox violated her ... Read Full Story

*super-size pdf and jpeg versions coming soon... OBAMA JOKER PRINTABLE LARGE FORMAT DOWNLOADS HERE; http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2483/3932667533_1151cf1085_o.jpg http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/3294/socialismprzydzialcrop.jpg A 45-year-old college art teacher of Polish/Austrian descent who supported Rep. Sarah Palin’s (vice) presidential candidacy is the anonymous artist who turned a Time magazine cover photo of Barack Hussein Obama into the nefarious Joker of the Batman series, The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. Edward Przydzial was home in Beverly Hills on his mid break from the Art Institute when he toyed around with Photoshop to come up with the image. He posted it to the picture site Flickr for friends to see his artwork, the paper ... Read Full Story