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La Russa Strikes Out at Twitter
By: Roy Mark
2009-06-04
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St. Louis Cardinals Manager Tony La Russa sues messaging site Twitter, saying Twitter allowed an impersonator to appropriate his name and trademark.St. Louis Cardinals Manager Tony La Russa is not amused about an
impersonator using his name on Twitter, the microblogging social networking
service. After the impersonator made several off-color comments about two
Cardinals players who died recently, La Russa sued Twitter over "significant
emotional distress [and] damage to reputation."
More specifically, La Russa is suing Twitter over claims of trademark
infringement, cybersquatting, and misappropriation of likeness and name. La Russa,
a popular online figure not only for baseball but also for his work with the Animal
Rescue Foundation, claims Twitter allowed the impersonator to do damage to La Russa's
other online entities.
Click here to read about how a hacker gained administrative access to Twitter.
Twitter removed the page shortly after La Russa filed his lawsuit in May in San
Francisco. Twitter's user agreement discusses the
possible penalties for impersonating someone else.
"As a direct and proximate result of Defendant's (Twitter) actions ... Plaintiff
(La Russa) has suffered significant emotional distress, damage to his
reputation and damage to the goodwill of his mark," states the lawsuit.
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