We previously reported that the New York Post threatened Uwe Boll with legal action if he did not remove his “New York Postal” website. While Boll did not comply with the Post’s requests, his hosting provider was more than happy to oblige. So, what’s a rowdy-German filmmaker/shlockmeister to do? The only thing a man’s man can do, he re-hosted the website himself and challenged the New York Post to a boxing match.
The Post, clearly concerned about harming the devastatingly good looks of their editors, turned down Boll’s challenge and decided, instead, to take Dr. Boll to court. Read on for the details of the case.
The case, filed in US District Court in Manhattan, alleges that Boll’s New York Postal is a “brazen and unlawful infringement of the New York Post’s valuable intellectual property” and requests that Boll be enjoined from hosting the many iterations of the New York Postal website. Further, the Post requests that the domain names that currently direct users to the website be transferred to the Post’s ownership and that Boll be required to pay an unspecified amount of damages.
In addition to Boll, Freestyle Releasing, the independent movie studio responsible for releasing “Postal” in the United States, is named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
For more info, see: New York Sun
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