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...knockoff artists can get an even quicker head start on designers in the race to retail stores--a race Paris is already losing. "This cannot continue," declares Marie-Louise de Clermont Tonnerre of Chanel. "We will do everything we must to protect our creations." The houses recently filed a lawsuit to ban uploads and seek jail time for offenders, arguing that footage and photos of their lines are the designers' property and cannot be distributed without consent. It's more than a bit quixotic. Says De Clermont Tonnerre: "All we can do is let them know that if we catch...
...instance, spent an estimated $75 million fighting the Cipollone case in New Jersey; though the jury awarded the husband of Rose Cipollone, who died of lung cancer, $400,000 in damages, that verdict was overturned on appeal. Tobacco experts insist they are undaunted by the slew of new lawsuits, and they point out that Jeffrey Wigand has yet to be cross-examined. In fact, five law firms are representing B&W in its breach-of-contract lawsuit against Wigand, who notes dryly, "I'm just a little schoolteacher, and they are how many? Pretty even odds, I think...
Collins had a moment of high drama late in the week while being cross-examined by a Random House lawyer. Did she not, she was asked, contend in a 1992 $20 million lawsuit against the Globe tabloid that published photographs of her topless with her boyfriend so distressed her that she was unable to fulfill her Random House contract? "Don't you have any shame?" he bellowed. Showing little of the steely resolve of Alexis Carrington, the character she portrayed in TV's Dynasty in the 1980s, Collins fled the witness stand in tears...
...going without challenges, of course. Civil rights groups in and out of cyberspace, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), sued to test the constitutionality of the law. Yesterday, a federal judge banned the goverment from enforcing the law until he hears arguments on the lawsuit. Many observers believe the CDA will be found to violate First Amendment rights of speech and expression...
Wigand's formerly low profile was blown sky-high in November, during a controversy over CBS' 60 Minutes' cutting back a segment on cigarettes because of fear of legal retaliation. Wigand was revealed to be CBS' Deep Throat, and B&W immediately slapped him with a lawsuit charging theft, fraud and breach of contract, stemming from a confidentiality agreement he had signed when he left B&W in 1993. Wigand nevertheless gave his Mississippi deposition. After somebody leaked a copy of his testimony to the Wall Street Journal, which published key excerpts and lofted the entire document onto the World...