'American Idol' producers sue Texas club running 'Stripper Idol' competition.Byline: ANI New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Jan 15 (ANI): A bar in Austin, Texas, which has been running a 'Stripper Idol' competition, has been sued by the producers of the 'American Idol' show. The bar has been running its 'Stripper Idol' contest ever week, in which patrons dance topless for a cash prize of 500 dollars, but FremantleMedia North America, which owns the popular TV show, wants it to quit. According to The Dallas Morning News, FremantleMedia cited in its lawsuit that the contest is a trademark violation, and wants to stop the contest at Palazio Men's Club in Austin and to seize its profits. It further said that the 'Stripper Idol' contest could mislead the public to believe that the TV show sponsors the event. As per the lawsuit, adverts for the contest use a logo with a "color scheme, design and font" similar to that of the TV show, and waitresses at the club wear T-shirts emblazoned with the logo, according to the lawsuit. Palazio says that it has no plans to stop the competition, which has grown in popularity since the lawsuit was made public. "It's shocking. We're just a local company - it's not like we're some big threat," the New York Daily News New York Daily News Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S. quoted club manager Scott Stevenson as saying. (ANI) Copyright 2008 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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