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Barbie Beats Back Bratz: Federal Judge Bars MGA From Making, Selling Dolls
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| December 4, 2008: 9:07 AM ET
Posted on 12/04/2008 12:26:09 PM PST by lewisglad
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posted on
12/04/2008 12:26:09 PM PST
by
lewisglad
To: lewisglad
Bratz are banned in this house. My hubby calls them Slutz, Hookerz, or Stripperz, and our oldest calls them Skankz.
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posted on
12/04/2008 12:28:08 PM PST
by
FarRightFanatic
(It wasn't an election. It was a socialist coup.)
To: lewisglad
So, anybody that has ever worked for Mattel cannot conceive of, design or produce a doll of any kind?.............
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posted on
12/04/2008 12:29:08 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
To: lewisglad
Not even close to a Barbie.
So, only Mattel can make dolls now?
To: FarRightFanatic
They should rename them 'Pussycat Dolls in training.'
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posted on
12/04/2008 12:29:59 PM PST
by
lewisglad
To: lewisglad
I could not for the life of me understand this verdict until I read the last sentence: The ruling, issued in federal court in Riverside, followed a jury's finding that Bratz designer Carter Bryant developed the concept for the dolls while working for Mattel.
Now it makes sense.
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posted on
12/04/2008 12:30:05 PM PST
by
usurper
(Spelling or grammatical errors in this post can be attributed to the LA City School System)
To: lewisglad
You snipped one line before the killer that turned my reaction from "idiot judge" to "hmm, that make sense". The jury ruled that the Bratz developer created them while he worked at Mattel.
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posted on
12/04/2008 12:30:18 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(11/4: The revolutionary socialists beat the Fabian ones. Where can we find a capitalist party?)
To: FarRightFanatic
Agreed. Those SLutz dolls are disgusting and wrong for girls to play with, and wrong for boys to consider that’s what a girl is.
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posted on
12/04/2008 12:30:32 PM PST
by
AmericanGirlRising
(The cow is in the ditch. We know how it got there. Now help me get it out!)
To: Red Badger
So, anybody that has ever worked for Mattel cannot conceive of, design or produce a doll of any kind?...
Read much?
Bryant created the concept while *working for* Mattel, not after.
To the list of Skankz and Slutz, we like to call them Hoez and Inbredz...
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posted on
12/04/2008 12:32:05 PM PST
by
sturmde
To: usurper
Yep. A simple case of intellectual property rights.
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posted on
12/04/2008 12:32:05 PM PST
by
WayneS
(Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
To: AmericanGirlRising
They're Skank-o-Riffic!
To: FarRightFanatic
Yep, I can’t imagine any responsible parent giving their daughter a skank doll as a toy.
To: FarRightFanatic
Luckily my daugther isn’t old enough to discover Bratz yet. But I already planned on banning them. Vile things they are.
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posted on
12/04/2008 12:33:10 PM PST
by
elc
To: Red Badger
“Bratz designer Carter Bryant developed the concept for the (Bratz)dolls while working for Mattel”
If they paid him to design for Mattel and then he goes to MGA with a product he developed at Mattel, the “design” he sold them was not his own, it was the property of Mattel, because they paid him for it.
I am a scientist. I own no rights to anything I develop or discover while working for my company. Anything I do BELONGS to the company that pays me for my research.
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posted on
12/04/2008 12:33:32 PM PST
by
allmendream
(Wealth is EARNED not distributed.... so how could it be Redistributed?)
To: Red Badger
Lots of employment contracts have no-compete clauses.
Almost all of them have clauses that state that all work created by the employee while working for the company is the property of the company.
If this guy did the design for these dolls on Mattel’s time, then the copyright belongs to Mattel. Mattel can do what they want with them.
As for my house, Bratz are never allowed in the front door. My daughter knows better than to ask.
Not. Gonna. Happen.
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posted on
12/04/2008 12:34:18 PM PST
by
gridlock
(Global Warming is like The Homeless. It will disappear the moment a Democrat is in the White House.)
To: lewisglad
To: FarRightFanatic
I call them Ho bag Barbies.
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posted on
12/04/2008 12:35:32 PM PST
by
Barb4Bush
(God help us all!)
To: Red Badger
So, anybody that has ever worked for Mattel cannot conceive of, design or produce a doll of any kind?.............Mattel's claim, which the jury accepted, was that he developed the Bratz dolls while still working at Mattel, and then took them to MGA when he changed jobs.
To: AmericanGirlRising
To: lewisglad
OMG, they have all had their noses surgically removed!!!
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posted on
12/04/2008 12:38:42 PM PST
by
RobRoy
(Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in the 1930's.)
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