This is kind of interesting... I'm just kind of weirded out that a company as big as hallmark didn't ask for rights to use her image... like did anyone think, "Hey, we should probably ask Paris Hilton if we can use her or her likeness on this card?" Legal Team: No, just do it. Who cares? I doubt she can read.Finding a card with a skinny, cartoon blonde with a photo of her face over it, and the phrase “that’s hot,” wasn’t a Hallmark moment for Paris Hilton. In fact, Hilton has filed a lawsuit against the greeting card giant.
Hilton is suing for commercial appropriation of her identity, invasion of privacy, misappropriation of publicity and false designation of origin under the Lanham Act.
In Hilton’s lawsuit, the heiress claims “a photograph of Ms. Hilton’s face is superimposed over a cartoon of a waitress serving food to a patron, along with the dialogue: ‘Don’t touch that, it’s hot. What’s hot? That’s Hot.’”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20649019/
Hilton is suing for commercial appropriation of her identity, invasion of privacy, misappropriation of publicity and false designation of origin under the Lanham Act.
In Hilton’s lawsuit, the heiress claims “a photograph of Ms. Hilton’s face is superimposed over a cartoon of a waitress serving food to a patron, along with the dialogue: ‘Don’t touch that, it’s hot. What’s hot? That’s Hot.’”
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I got this card for my birthday!
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