by Structured Settlement Watchdog
They say, "If you lay down with 'my dog' you're gonna get up with fees!" Legal fees that is. J.G. Wentworth finds itself a defendant in a recently filed copyright action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York captioned "CLASSIC MEDIA, LLC, Plaintiff, v. J.G. WENTWORTH, LLC, Karlin + Pimsler, Inc., Defendants. No. 11 CIV 8394. November 18, 2011.
According to the complaint, the plaintiff is the sole owner and proprietor of copyrights related to the famous fictional collie dog character known as “Lassie” –the star of eleven feature films and several television shows, most notably the first Lassie series (hereinafter “Lassie” or the “Program”) that originally ran from 1954 until 1973 and is still in syndication to this date.
The ad subject to the alleged infringement action, was still posted on YouTube on the account of J.G. Wentworth's ad agency Karlin Pimsler at the time this blog was published.
Copy of the Complaint Download ALLCPlaintiffvJGWENTWORTHLLCKarlinplusPimslerIncDefendan[1]
I had a collie like Lassie as a child and have fond childhood memories (that I don't wish to be sullied)
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