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Perez Hilton Gets Sued

December 3rd, 2006

Uber-gay celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton will face a federal lawsuit from several of the largest paparazzi agencies in the US if he doesn’t cough up some serious dough for his use of their copyrighted images on his blog. Splash News Online, one of the seven agencies involved in the suit, reported yesterday:

Splash News, INF, Ramey, Bauer Griffin, WENN, Most Wanted and Flynet have joined forces to stop Perezhilton.com from using copyrighted images. The seven agencies have spent the last few weeks conferring over how to stop Hilton. In an unprecedented co-operation between paparazzi and showbusiness agencies, the heads of the agencies agreed to take action. A letter was sent demanding full payment of all infringed material or face a lawsuit next week.

I have always been mystified by Perez Hilton’s success. Really, drawing hearts and coke boogers on pictures — apparently very copyrighted pictures — takes the talent of a four year old and a mastery of Microsoft Paint. He’s not funny. I know because I consider myself a concierge of funny. See how I just did that? I said “concierge” instead of “connoisseur.” And that’s funny because it makes you think I’m a pompous dumbass. I like to call it “tongue-in-cheek.” It’s a subtle art. And I just farted and slipped on a banana peel. Zing! There’s comedy genius for you.

Original post by abby

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