Barney the Dinosaur lawsuit
p2pnet.net News:- “Barney is a dinosaur with no imagination. Picks his nose and smells his toes and suffers from constipation.”
That’s one of the songs Emma, our daughter, and her friends sing about Barney, the disgusting Purple Dinosaur who plagues childrens’ TV —— and kids’ parents.
But they used to like him. And Yes, when Emma was young, WE BOUGHT HER A BARNEY TAPE!!! OK? But only one. And it was from a garage sale. Which isn’t to say we’re not deeply ashamed today. But we were young, back then, young and inexperienced parents and ………..
But the creature is no joke. In fact, “BARNEY IS TO CHILDREN AS OSAMA BIN LADEN IS TO ISLAM,” says Stuart Frankel from the ‘Evil’ link in his Small-But-Intense home page.
Check out some of the links on Frankel’s Barney page site, such as this one.
Meanwhile, “I”ll sue you, you sue me, Oh what fun the suits will be,” p2pnet posted back in October last year. That was when it was revealed warning letters were going out to sites with Barney spoof pix.
But now, “The corporate owners of the popular children’s television character Barney the Purple Dinosaur have agreed to withdraw their baseless legal threats against a website publisher who parodied the character and to compensate him for fees expended in defending himself,” says the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation).
“The agreement settles a suit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in August on behalf of Dr. Stuart Frankel against Lyons Partnership, owners of the Barney character.”
Elizabeth Rader, James d’Auguste and Brian Carney, attorneys with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP, were defending Frankel’s free speech rights pro bono and assisted in the case, says the EFF.
Also See:
EFF – EFF Accepts Barney’s Surrender, November 28, 2006
Barney spoof pix – Bloody Barney: Oh, the Horror!, October 18, 2005
