Judge to dismiss Carol Burnett's lawsuit over Family Guy

[bicentennial_baby]

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge said he will dismiss
Carol Burnett's $2 million copyright infringement lawsuit over the use of her cleaning woman character in the animated series "Family Guy."

U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson said in a written tentative ruling Friday that he planned to dismiss the lawsuit against 20th Century Fox. He will issue a final ruling later.

The 74-year-old comedian sued the studio in March, contending that the Fox show didn't have her permission to include her Charwoman character in an April 2006 episode.

The episode portrayed the character as a cleaning woman in a sex shop and also used a version of the theme music to her old TV series without permission, the lawsuit claimed.

Saw that coming....just sayin'. :P

[Matsubara]

1. Of Course - Parody has always been fair use.

Woulda thought Carol would have had a better sense of humor than that. Who'da thought she'd become an anal clencher in old age?


She's still one of the greats though. That show was amazing.