Mattel had hoped to sue photographer Thomas Forsythe for including Barbie dolls in his parodic photos. Instead, they'll be paying Forsythe and his lawyers $1.83 million for filing a frivolous lawsuit. Ouch. Learn your copyright law, folks.
You'd think this would've been solved back in the early 60s with Andy's soup cans. Campbell's were smarter than Mattel, then and now. They checked Warhol out then but left him alone, and more recently they put him on a can! Well, sort of. Smart cookies.
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