Vivid settles suit.Van Nuys-based adult film studio Vivid Entertainment Group has settled out of court with Ripley Entertainment Created by the success of Ripley's Believe it or Not!, Ripley Entertainment Inc. is a large entertainment and edutainment holding company owned by the Jim Pattison Group. Holdings
Ripley, which has trademark rights to the "Believe it or Not" slogan, claimed Vivid had illegally used the slogan and sought to stop the use of it by Vivid along with unspecified damages. Vivid President Steven Hirsch said the company agreed to settle the case out of court due to the potential high cost of defending it. As part of the settlement, Vivid will stop manufacturing, distributing or selling the two tapes. Both were released in 2001. Ripley is best known for its comic strip comic strip, combination of cartoon with a story line, laid out in a series of pictorial panels across a page and concerning a continuous character or set of characters, whose thoughts and dialogues are indicated by means of "balloons" containing written speech. , dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. "Ripley's Believe It or Not," first written by Robert Ripley Robert LeRoy Ripley (December 26,1893–May 27, 1949)[1] was a cartoonist, entrepreneur, and amateur anthropologist who created the world famous Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series, featuring odd but true facts from around the world. in the 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 Globe in 1918 and continues to appear today in newspapers in nearly 40 countries around the world. It features drawings that illustrate interesting and unusual facts throughout history. |
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