Only in America

Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Home Entertainment are looking to protect the 2010 film Secretariat from purported claims from the estate of the horse-racing announcer who called the race where the legendary horse won the 1973 Triple Crown.

Disney has filed a lawsuit in New York that seeks a declaratory judgment that its film doesn't violate the publicity rights of fomer CBS track announcer Charles Anderson, who died in 1979. According to the studio, his heirs have spent two years since the film came out, arguing that Anderson's voice was used in the film without authorization.
Different U.S. states have varying laws in regards to an individual's publicity rights. The most generous (in Indiana) confers protections on an individual’s “name, voice, signature, photograph, image, likeness, distinctive appearance, gestures or mannerisms" and several celebrities including Bette Midler and Tom Waits have prevailed in past claims that the use of sound-alike impersonator violated their publicity rights.

they would sue a squirrel over an acorn in this crazy country!!!

The difference between the laws and rules from state to state is what has made racing here such a mess, as politicians have screwed up the game with inconsistency in rules and policy. Doubt it will ever change.

What makes America great is the individual liberty to follow one's dreams from beginning to fruition.

What makes it suck are the politicians that the people elect to represent them.

Only in America...

... can you name a horse Doctor Chit ()

gregbucks Wrote:

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> Only in America...
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> ... can you name a horse Doctor Chit ()


Mike Hunt...(

From the same breeding as Chippy's My Face...

Pirhobeta Wrote:

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> From the same breeding as Chippy's My Face...


lol....

Greg i am sure i heard a horse win today at some venue, called YOURARTISONFIRE.

LOL

Remember Weigh Anchor?

Swallow Senorita was my favourite,plus there is a horse running in Ireland atm called Forced Kin,the commentator has big problems with that one,specially when it was chasing a bit of a crack the other week

hibernia Wrote:

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> Swallow Senorita was my favourite,plus there is a
> horse running in Ireland atm called Forced Kin,the
> commentator has big problems with that
> one,specially when it was chasing a bit of a crack
> the other week


Im sure Forced Kin's jockey was John Thomas...