Paris Hilton sues Hallmark over waitress card
Friday, September 7th, 2007A snippet from http://tinyurl.com/39kywd:
“LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Socialite Paris Hilton has filed a lawsuit against Hallmark Cards, claiming it used her likeness without permission on a greeting card entitled “Paris’s First Day as a Waitress.”
Kansas City-based Hallmark Cards said the card was part of a satirical series that parodied celebrities and politicians.
“According to the lawsuit, Hilton’s face is superimposed over a cartoon of a waitress serving food to a patron with the dialogue “Don’t touch that, it’s hot. What’s hot? That’s hot.”
“It says the card was selling in the United States for $2.49.
“The suit says that Hallmark failed to obtain approval from the hotel heiress for using her image and had damaged her rights to privacy and publicity.”
Uh, yeah. Ridiculous, huh?
Let’s review something together, shall we? This is Paris Hilton. That’s right, Paris Hilton is suing because her RIGHTS TO PRIVACY AND PUBLICITY were damaged. MmHmm. This from the gal whose sex vid is still in high demand on the ‘net. Who doesn’t walk but rather poses her way through life. Utterly ridiculous!
I was wondering, though -ridiculousness aside- as a celebrity, are Hilton’s rights being trampled by Hallmark? A quick review of my media law book tells me that she just might have a case. The key here is that her likeness was used in parody - and that’s where I think she could have something. (Well, her attorneys could have something - I find it nearly impossible to believe that Hilton has the sense of an ant, frankly.) Still, if I were the Hallmark attorney, I would argue that Hilton’s life is a pardoy of itself, therefore erasing the lines between reality and fiction.
And then finally, the whole thing is just so dumb that I say, as perhaps Paris herself might, “WhatEVER!”
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