mardi 15 avril 2014

Banana Lady's legal woes

1 ) Dress up in a banana suit.

2 ) Do a banana dance.

3 ) Sue everybody who takes your picture for copyright violation.



What could go wrong? :cool:



Case of ‘Banana Lady’ has little appeal for judge

Chicago Sun Times




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Clients who’ve hired the Wisconsin woman to perform her wacky singing telegrams have been sued for everything from sending a postcard with a picture of her in her yellow costume to videotaping her as she does her banana dance. She’s filed at least eight federal copyright violation lawsuits since 2009.



But now Banana Lady perhaps has finally met her match in U.S. Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner.



In a scathing, photo-illustrated eight-page opinion published by the Seventh Circuit Appeal Court on Monday, the noted jurist called Banana Lady’s lawsuit against several credit unions who hired her an “abuse of the legal process” that was “without merit.”



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What a meanie.





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