Dizzney sues Tigger
Jul. 11th, 2008 12:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Via WDW News Today...
Disney Sues Couple Over Costumes
CLERMONT, Fla. -- Disney has filed a million-dollar copyright infringement lawsuit against a Clermont couple over costumes resembling Tigger and Eeyore.
David and Marisol Perez-Chaveco about two years ago created their own company, Kool Klowns, which offers face painting, inflatable houses and costumed characters at parties.
"I don't want to be on welfare all my life. I wanted to be something, make something of ourselves and get on our feet," Marisol Perez-Chaveco said.
The couple paid more than $500 for costumes on eBay from a company in Peru and advertised the characters online.
"We bought two characters that to me is an orange tiger and a blue donkey," Marisol Perez-Chaveco said.
The funny thing is, we now own about a million billion jillion plush Stitchies, all licensed to the Walt Disney company, but dressed up in costumes as other licensed (non-Disney) characters, ranging from Super Mario to Hard Gay, and NONE of them carrying any kind of intellectual property mark for the other chara. So when Stitch dresses up as the licensed Sanrio character, Kuromi (as see above), will Hello Kitty sue his fuzzy blue patookie off?
