Barbie Takes ‘Porno Barbie’ to Court.
August 22, 2007
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When a children’s toy company takes a porn star to court, you know it’s going to be quite a story.
With the recall of it’s China made toys fresh in the mind, the world’s largest toy company Mattel, is on the front foot with another kind of China.
The company is suing adult entertainer China Barbie for using ‘a domain name containing the word “barbie” in a “bad faith attempt to profit from Mattel’s Barbie trademarks” and had damaged Mattel’s good name’, according to media reports.
As you probably know Barbie is the worlds best selling fashion doll, since 1959 with about US $1.6 billion in sales each year. A personal favourite of mine….
Apparently China Barbie is the porn alias of Terri Gibson, who owns and runs her own adult web site under the company name Global China Networks, where users can access exclusive content for US$19.95 (€14.77). Sounds like a good deal to me.
Before getting into porn Gibson supposedly worked at some of the world’s leading investment banking firms and advertising agencies in New York, but the lucrative world of porn was just too seductive for 29 year old Terri.
Along with appearing in her own web site, Terri who’s father is Jamaican and mother Chinese, has also appeared in a number of hardcore adult films since 2001, according to IMDB.com, including Asian Divas 3, Me Luv U Long Time and Oral Sensations 7.
Mattel is angry at their good name being spoilt, demanding it get it’s hands on the Chinabarbie.com domain name, damages of $100,000 (€74,030) and to order that any profits Global China Networks achieved be given to Mattel.
Our friends at Mattel are no stranger to court action. Cases include:
Memorably in 1997 against the Danish pop group Aqua for their song parody, Barbie Girl, it lost that case.
Mattel successfully sued an artist from Utah in 1999 for profiting from artistic photographs called Food Chain Barbie involving Barbie dolls in a blender. (Click to see the pictures)
An injunction against a British woman who produced a Barbie doll dressed in bondage clothing, that one was dismissed by the Judge, “to the court’s knowledge, there is no Mattel line of S&M Barbie.”
Hideous.
The only question now remains, who does mattel have their sights on now?
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Sly me…
Coz every good blog needs a montage…..Oh it takes a montage (montage)….
As luck would have it….
A small village in the eastern European nation of Serbia, with a reputation for being disaster prone, has erected a statue of the fictional character, Rocky Balboa, made famous by growth hormone loving Sylvester Stallone.
The small town about 60 kilometres (35 miles) north of the capital Belgrade, decided to create the bronze statue in the village centre after a resident suggested the idea after he saw Rocky Six.
“I felt as if Rocky has come from our village, he had to fight to win his place in society,” an excited Bojan Marceta said after seeing the movie.
“Ya know they always say if you live in one place long enough, you are that place.”
Since experiencing serious flooding over the last few years, many locals have left the village in Vojvodina province in search of a better life.
“For years, only negative reports on farm diseases, monstrous murders, floods and landslides, have been coming from our village,” Bojan said.
But Bojan said it was time for some change in luck for his little town, and the hopes were that the new statue would help make the future brighter. Local officials agreed.
“This is the chance to give a better, more positive image to Zitiste.”
“Our idea has really stirred the public,” said local politician Zoran Kasalovic. “Now, no one in Serbia can say they don’t know about Zitiste.”
Yurah!
I’m so inspired (”somehow”) right now! I’m off to jog up some steps while punching the air with my fists. If you know what I mean.
Always fade out in a montage,
If you fade out, it seems like more time
Has passed in a montage,
Montage…(montage)
I pity the fool.
Go on, tell the world!
Can’t name that song?
Don’t know anything about the artist?
You’re so pathetic, you don’t even know the words to the song, yet you still want to track it down so you can purchase it?
Never fear.
An Australian inventor has been working on the problem for a good decade.
The computer science expert from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology has developed the technology that will enable you to hum a melody into a microphone attached to you’re computer, and the software program will instantly track down you’re song.
“The singing is stored in the computer as a wave form and then must be converted into note information before it can be matched against the music,” Inventor Dr Sandra Uitdenbogerd said.
“The converted fragment of recorded singing is compared with the note information extracted from the audio files in the online music collection that’s being searched.”
Did you get all that?
I know I didn’t.
But what about the easy task of typing in the words to a song, and hunting down you’re favoured track that way?
Well the Dr Uitdenbogerd admits that is an easy option, but for all those idiots out there who don’t know jack about what words their song has in it; the new technology will do wonders.
“Obviously, there are songs that people will know the lyrics to and Googling the words will generate fast and accurate results,” Dr Uitdenbogerd said.
“However there are categories of music that cannot be searched using text as a method of retrieval.”
Currently, the technology can only search for simple MIDI files, but Dr Uitdenbogerd said MP3 compatible software would be her next goal.
Go on, tell the world!
Doggy-Dog Dog…
Legendary, some would say a little crazy, celebrity bounty hunter Duane Lee “Dog” Chapman, is out with a new book on his eventful life. After accusations that he’s a womanizing racist and a hypocritical, “crack head,” the Dog says he wants to set the record strait.
Dog has a well defined macho, cavalier, rough and tumble, tough guy image. Yet, he also paints himself as a good family man, and says he is a ‘devout Christian, who sees his job as a way to help people find the right path’. He will stop at nothing to chase down the ‘bad guys’, and get ‘em off the streets.
But other’s, including some members of his extended family, say his not the guy he makes out to be.
“Everyone is jumping on the ‘hate Dog’ bandwagon. They’re all lying. I’ve made a lot of enemies in my life, and I’m sorry I’ve done that. I guess if one person comes after you, they all come after you,” he angrily told the National Ledger.
The former convict also has a weak spot, and if he ever happens to be on your tale, you might want to find somewhere high up for safety.
Dog and boob’s, AKA his wife Beth.
Dog has a hardcore fear of heights.
When doing interviews for his book in New York City this week, he refused to head out to the roof of a 61-story building for a photo shoot.
So there it is, if ever being perused by bad ass Dog the Bounty Hunter, seek higher ground. Too easy.
In his biography, Chapman talks about his troubled childhood, joining a motorcycle gang, “run-ins” with the law, his five wives (juts like Mit Romney’s relatives), 12 children, and his devotion to God.
Once, after hunting crims in Mexico, he himself was arrested, as bounty hunting there is illegal (as it probably should be in all sane places).
He had gone there to capture Andrew Luster, a heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune who was wanted for rape in the US, not realizing what he was doing was an illegal act. Or did he?
Tough guy behind bars.
He was taken into custody in September 2006 by US authorities, but luckily for him, the charges were dropped.
“I’m going to keep bounty hunting in the U.S., but not in Mexico,” he tells media.
He also said that a book on his life would help clear up misconceptions about his personality.
“I come across sometimes as not the average bloke so this will help people understand me.”
Bloke? Is not that word of the Aussie variety… Trying to sound fair dinkum, ey. (Note: Don’t say the phrase fair dinkum on any US domestic flights, you may be arrested and questioned, for meaning on that word, click here).
The Dog the Bounty Hunter reality TV series is shown in more than 100 counties.
Click to see an excerpt from the book.
Watch an outtake from another wacky episode of Dog the Bounty Hunter.
Go on, tell the world!
