Warner Bros Sued For Pirating Louis Vuitton Trademark

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Warner Bros Sued For Pirating Louis Vuitton Trademark

Posted by Soulskill on Monday December 26, 2011 @08:10AM from the snake-eating-its-own-tail dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "You have to love a case where Warner Brothers, copyright maximalist extraordinaire, gets sued for 'piracy,' in this case for using a knock-off Louis Vuitton bag in a recent movie. This lawsuit has been described as 'awkward' for Warner; I have to agree with that characterization. Louis Vuitton's 22-page complaint (PDF) alleges that Warner Bros. had knowledge that the bag was a knock-off, but went ahead and used it anyway. Apparently Warner Bros. takes IP rights seriously only when its own IP rights are involved."

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The law is the law by Yvan256 · 2011-12-26 08:14 · Score: 5, Funny

Now, according to the usual MPAA calculations and the fact that petilions* of people will see that movie, they now must pay Louis Vuitton about 5 zetalions* dollars.
* The MPAA and RIAA aren't the only ones who can come up with stupid numbers.
1. Re:The law is the law by Gavin+Scott · 2011-12-26 08:31 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Perhaps they'll just argue that the viewers of the movie are the ones who are infringing by the act of looking at the counterfeit item, and so each moviegoer will owe LV $3,000.
  G.
2. Re:The law is the law by OzPeter · 2011-12-26 09:10 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Perhaps they'll just argue that the viewers of the movie are the ones who are infringing
  That movie had viewers???????
  
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Re:they will just shift the blame to some other pe by Anonymous Coward · 2011-12-26 08:15 · Score: 5, Funny

It is always an intern. It is a little known fact that Lee Harvey Oswald and John Wilkes Booth were intern patsies.
Meanwhile... by AliasMarlowe · 2011-12-26 08:19 · Score: 5, Funny

The Warner Bros lawyers are poring over every Louis Vuitton advertisement and product, desperately looking for something to neutralize the issue. Even a stain which is vaguely in the shape of Wile E Coyote would do.

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1. Re:Meanwhile... by jamstar7 · 2011-12-26 11:09 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Just in case anybody doesn't know . . . everything you see in the movies and on TV is fake.
  Including the tits on the 'girl next door'.
  
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Re:they will just shift the blame to some other pe by Anonymous Coward · 2011-12-26 08:44 · Score: 5, Funny

No, they will say either 1) "It's not a knock-off; it's a parody." or 2) "We bought the bag, we can use it however we like."
Re:How can they tell? by AverageWindowsUser · 2011-12-26 09:26 · Score: 5, Funny

We just got back from a week in LA; you'd be surprised how many of those bags even in Beverly Hills aren't real...
The fun-bags aren't real there either.
Re:Thats just FUD by NewYorkCountryLawyer · 2011-12-26 18:19 · Score: 3, Funny

Maybe I'm not really a lawyer. Maybe it's just a long nightmare from which I've yet to awaken.

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Re:they will just shift the blame to some other pe by DarwinSurvivor · 2011-12-26 18:55 · Score: 4, Funny

The best part of those adds is that only people who DIDN'T pirate the DVD had to sit through the stupid thing!
Re:they will just shift the blame to some other pe by mug+funky · 2011-12-26 22:20 · Score: 4, Funny

you wouldn't steal a handbag... oh wait.