Rob Fusari wants his 20 percent. The no name music producer is suing Stefani Germanotta for $30.5 million (cause $30 mill clearly wasn’t enough), claiming he co-wrote some of her biggest hits, gave her the name Lady Gaga, and helped her morph into the pop cultural phenomena she’s become. According to the lawsuit, they shared both a business and personal relationship, which is probably where he went wrong in the first place. Read more »
John Wiley & Sons, the publishers responsible for putting out those ‘For Dummies‘ series of books, sent a legal warning to the graffiti-based Smart Crew, claiming they’re infringing on the company’s trademark with this obvious parody painted on the side of a box truck in NYC. Read the full, sternly-worded letter below threatening legal action if the truck isn’t buffed. Read more »
The NYPD’s ignorance of basic free speech and photography costs taxpayers $30k. |Gothamist|
Jay-Z is suing some legal loan sharks over a deal gone bad that reportedly cost him $20k a day in interest. |NYDN|
Lawyers representing Demi Moore are threatening to sue Boing Boing and a few other blogs for slander after they dared to point out the obvious: that a chunk of her hip appears to have been Photoshopped out of the cover of the American issue of W magazine. Read more »
Back in September, we mocked and ridiculed ASCAP and BMI for seeking to charge consumers each time they previewed a song by listening to the 30-second previews provided by sites like iTunes. Now music industry executives, the fucksticks at Capital Records to be precise, are taking retardation to the next level by suing Vimeo for “copyright infringement” over the “lip-dub” videos posted to the site. Read more »
Some poor schlep who claims Busta Rhymes assaulted him at a concert with water bottles and a bodyguard won himself a nice little holiday bonus. A judge awarded the man $75,000, after the rapper didn’t even try and fight the charges, missing all seven hearings. Makes sense, perjury is a lot more expensive! |NYP|
The city is paying out $55k to settle a Queens teenager’s lawsuit alleging he was left with a bleeding head wound when a school security guard kicked in his bathroom stall without warning or reason. 16-year-old Stephen Cruz claims high school “safety agent” Daniel O’Connell busted open the door last year, opening a bloody gash in his forehead, saying, “That’s life; it will stop bleeding,” and abandoning the teenage victim. O’Connell, also known as RoboCop, has not been disciplined, only transferred to a nearby middle school of younger, more fragile students. |Gotham Schools|
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from America’s thuggish overlord/fast food terrorist, Oprah. Most recently she was seen wearing her P.T. Barnum hat to host a cornucopia of circus freaks like Mackenzie Phillips and the face transplant lady. Now a lawsuit alleges that Oprah fired a flight attendant and pilot on her private jet because they had the audacity to fuck each other…ON OPRAH’S PRIVATE JET! Read more »
While working “as an equipment room clerk in the athletic department” at NYU, Ariel Fleurimond was asked to whip up a logo, she did, but was surprised when the school actually used it and is now suing. |NYDN|
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