FC: Barney's lawyers send nastygram over anti-Barney humor page

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

From Walter Olson's overlawyered.com (via J.L.):

http://www.overlawyered.com/archives/01/june3.html#0625c
June 25 -- Barney's bluster. After online joke site Cybercheeze ran an item 
proposing a variety of demises for the cartoon character Barney ("150 Ways 
to Kill the Purple Dinosaur"), it got this letter (June 6) from Barney's 
owners, Lyons Partnership, L.P., advising: "We have reviewed your website 
and have concluded that it incorporates the use and threat of violence 
towards the children's character Barney without permission from Lyons 
Partnership" and demanding that the item be pulled, to which the site 
owners fired off this massively rude reply (June 14).

The 150 Ways to Kill the Purple Dinosaur joke list -- including remarks 
such as "Chopped up into pet food (Purina Barney chow)" and "OOPS! Barney 
shouldn't have soldered that propane tank while full" is here:
http://www.cybercheeze.com/humor/list/31.html

The nastygram from Barney's attorneys dated June 6:
http://www.cybercheeze.com/info/news/barneysuit.html

CyberCheeze's massively rude reply:
http://www.cybercheeze.com/info/news/barneyreply.html

Copied to Barney's webmasters, who is invited to reply to the list.

-Declan




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