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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox News anchor sues Hasbro over toy hamster with her name
FILE - In this April 28, 2015, file photo, Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner poses for a photo on the set in New York. Harris sued toymaker Hasbro Monday, Aug. 31, 2015, in federal court in New Jersey for more than $5 million over a toy that shares her name. Harris' suit claims Hasbro wrongfully appropriated her name and persona with its plastic "Harris Faulkner" hamster. Photo: Richard Drew, AP / AP
Photo: Richard Drew, AP
This June 23, 2015 photo released by the Hogan Lovells law firm shows toys from Hasbro's "Littlest Pet Shop" line in New York, including characters named Benson Detwyler and Harris Faulkner. Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner sued Hasbro Monday, Aug. 31, 2015, in federal court in New Jersey for more than $5 million over the toy that shares her name. Harris' suit claims Hasbro wrongfully appropriated her name and persona with its plastic "Harris Faulkner" hamster. (Patsy Wilson/Hogan Lovells via AP Photo)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) An anchor for Fox News is suing Hasbro for more than $5 million over a toy hamster that shares her name and possibly even her resemblance.
Harris Faulkner sued Hasbro this week over its plastic Harris Faulkner hamster, sold as part of the Pawtucket, Rhode Island-based company's popular Littlest Pet Shop line. She says the toy wrongfully appropriates her name and persona, harms her professional credibility as a journalist and is an insult.
"Hasbro's portrayal of Faulkner as a rodent is demeaning and insulting," says the lawsuit, which was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in New Jersey.
Faulkner has been at Fox News for a decade. She hosts the daytime show "Outnumbered" and anchors a Sunday evening newscast.
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Faulkner is seeking $5 million in damages and attorney fees, plus any profits the company made on the toy.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/article/Fox-News-anchor-sues-Hasbro-over-toy-hamster-with-6480548.php#photo-8570783
[font color=330099]I wonder if Harris Faulkner is one of the people that promote lawsuit reform? Hasbro apparently has trademarked the name so this could be interesting...[/font]
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Fox News anchor sues Hasbro over toy hamster with her name (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Sep 2015
OP
Remember when conservatives pretended to be against "frivolous lawsuits?"
Adenoid_Hynkel
Sep 2015
#8
pscot
(21,023 posts)1. It does have her eyes
OTOH, screw Hasbro.
LisaL
(44,962 posts)2. I don't see much of a resemblance between her and the hamster.
Kaleva
(36,147 posts)3. If Richard Gere calls her, she'd then have a case.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)4. Hasbro should lose
but criminy, working ten years for FAUX Snooze is more demeaning than having a toy hamster named after you.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)5. Nope, can't see the resemblance
fifthoffive
(382 posts)6. That's a hamster?
Never heard of Harris Faulkner.
Why isn't Benson Detwyler suing Hasbro too? And what kind of animal is s/he?
Those names look like they came out of a random name generator.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)7. Does a person own a copyright of their name?
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)8. Remember when conservatives pretended to be against "frivolous lawsuits?"
That was hilarious.
surrealAmerican
(11,340 posts)9. The toy company is in the wrong here.
If it is a coincidence, they could have at least done a search on the name, to make sure they weren't using the name of a known person.
The only resemblance I see is the false eyelashes.
ladyVet
(1,587 posts)10. Hm. Looks like they've trademarked her name. That could be awkward.
They could sue her for using her own name.
And she's upset because they made her a hamster? Me, I'd be so tickled I'd buy a gross or two, hand them out everywhere I went.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)12. I've heard that among some Frenchmen,
"hamster" can be used as an insult
dembotoz
(16,739 posts)11. More of a ratface
pintobean
(18,101 posts)13. I think she's pretty.
A ratface? Wow.