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Originally posted by robustpuppy
ABC has pulled "Welcome to the Neighborhood" after it was suggested to the network that a reality series in which three couples consider race and religion to help decide which contestant family gets to become their neighbor violates the federal Fair Housing Act.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2902817_2.html
My question is, how the fuck did this get through Legal in the first place, Str8?
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TV lawyers are dumb.
Better question is how did Warner Bros.' lawyers miss the fact that the TV show Dukes of Hazzard was based on a 1974 movie called Moonrunners, and apparently the TV show producers never got theatrical motion picture rights?
So Warner Bros. is infringing on Moonrunners' copyright, and the producer of Moonrunners this week got a preliminary injunction against Stiffler, Johnny Knoxville, Jessica Simpson et al. Warners just paid this producer $17.5 million to settle the suit and avoid having all their prints confiscated by federal marshals.
Bwahahahhahaha. That's going to change some P&Ls up there.
