‘Girls Gone Wild’ - Joe Francis vs. Madonna

[Supafly]

I am unsure which one of those two is the bigger attention-whore :1orglaugh

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Joe Francis is going wild on Madonna’s Super Bowl show.

The soft-porn entrepreneur’s lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Material Girl, threatening to sue if she plays the song “Girls Gone Wild,” from her new album, during her halftime performance at the Super Bowl on Sunday.

“This isn’t personally directed at Madonna as a person, this is a business decision. And now she’s aware that she stepped over the line,” Francis’ lawyer David R. Houston told the Daily News. “If Mr. Francis was producing a product called ‘Material Girl,’ and she had a copyright, I doubt she’d appreciate it.”

He said he and Joe Francis became aware of the song in the last 24 hours after iTunes started accepting preorders. He said Francis has a federal trademark for the phrase.

“I agree ‘Girls Gone Wild’ is part of the lexicon and people use it quite a bit, but when it’s used for commercial profit, it’s important for us to protect ‘Girls Gone Wild’ as the brand he’s spent decades developing,” Houston said.

They haven’t heard anything back from the letter

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Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertai...-madonna-song-article-1.1016785#ixzz1lMpfrret

 

[STDiva]

Every day phrases like that shouldn't be trademarked.

I'd still dig up Madonna reaaaal hard though.

 

[Kingfisher]

Didn't the retard Paris Hilton try to trademark a word and fail? F'ing twit.

 

[bobjustbob]

Attention whores both. Here's an example that goes back to 1946:

The Marx Brothers were producing a film named A Night in Casssablanca. Warner Brothers sent letters to them asking about the plot and script because they produced Cassablanca in 1942. Groucho decided to cash in on the oppertunity for publicity and wrote open letters to Warner Brothers in the press. He said that if Warner Brothers was goung to sue for the use of the name Cassablanca, he would counter sue stating that he and his siblings had use of the word "brothers" prior to the establishment of Warner Brothers. He also mentioned that he would consider further legal action by pointing out to Warners that the title of their current hit film Night and Day infringed on the titles of two Marx Brothers films; A Night At The Opera and A Day At The Races.