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peterpuck9's Blog
Topic: Pretty.......Vacant (Paris Hilton's lawyers object to New Zealand billboard)
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fiogf49gjkf0d Unfortunately, the link to the billboard in this article wasn't working.
Medemia posted another link below.
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YOU can call her pretty but if you call her "vacant" expect to wind up in court.
Heirhead Paris Hilton is threatening to sue a New Zealand company which advertised an unused billboard by using her picture with the word "vacant" written across it.
Hilton's manager Jamie Freed said from Los Angeles that Wellington-based Media5 had not gained permission to use the image and could expect to hear from her lawyers.
Media5's Adam McGregor said the company was just having a "bit of fun" with the billboard, for which a gaffe-prone former Kiwi foreign affairs minister was also a candidate.
"We were thinking about using Winston Peters, but Paris is much prettier and she has a proven ability to laugh at herself," he told the Sunday Star Times.
McGregor said he assumed that an agency had "taken care of the rights" to the image of Paris.
But now her lawyers are breathing down his neck, he's vowed to "ask the question".
If Hilton's lawyers asked, the company would remove the image, McGregor said. "We're not trying to offend anyone."
That the offending billboard is 10,800km away in Wellington just shows how on to it Hilton's IP team is (possibly the first instance ever linking Paris and the concept of "intellectual property").
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fiogf49gjkf0d In case you want to see the billboard, it's on Flickr:
Vacant?
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fiogf49gjkf0d As long as Xena doesn't try to sing. Then all hell breaks loose!...... ;-)
Stavro Arrgolus:
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Clearly, 'truth in advertising' is serious business in New Zealand. Maybe Xena can fix all this...
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fiogf49gjkf0d Seriosiously, how timely can my new song "She's Always a Hilton" be?
www.oddaustin.com, download it for free.
That Paris is crazy.
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fiogf49gjkf0d Clearly, 'truth in advertising' is serious business in New Zealand. Maybe Xena can fix all this...
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