Story: Glitch with new iPhone sales; on the evening news, the caption and headline was “iPocalypse.”
So, apparently a difficulty in activating the iPhone will be the end to all life as we know it, according to the news. Gee, and most of the people I’ve heard from waiting in line just think it’s annoying. I hope they learn the true weight of this before the horsemen show up.
From Orlando Sentinel
Disney sues Lake County business over use of Tigger, other characters
Stephen Hudak | Sentinel Staff Writer
July 10, 2008
Step aside, Cruella De Vil.A federal lawsuit filed by Disney Enterprises Inc. has cast a Clermont couple as villains who exploited the trademarked likenesses of Winnie the Pooh, Eeyore and Tigger, too, to enrich their family business, Kool Klown Party People Inc.
Maitland-based lawyers for Disney demanded in the million-dollar copyright-infringement suit that David Chaveco, 32, and Marisol Perez-Chaveco, 31, stop offering live entertainment services for children’s parties that feature performers in “unauthorized reproductions” of character costumes.
The 2-year-old Lake County company offers custom-baked cakes, face painting, pinatas and inflatable “bounce” houses.
Perez-Chaveco, a work-from-home mother of two preschoolers, said she and her husband did not realize they were harming the film and resort giant when they paid $500 plus shipping for the adult-sized costumes of a “blue donkey” and an “orange tiger” from a Peruvian company on eBay.
The costumes were close matches to cartoon versions of droll Eeyore and bouncy Tigger.
“All of a sudden, I’m like some Cruella, the woman who steals puppies,” Perez-Chaveco said, referring to the villainess in 101 Dalmatians.
Punchline: Disney is now filing a second lawsuit for the use of Cruella in Perez-Chaveco’s analogy. Dammit people, when will you learn! 