Chubby Checker sues HP over manhood app

NBC News ^ | February 15, 2013 | Devin Coldewey

[gitmo]

That’s a few more downloads than that video Obama claimed caused the Benghazi massacre.

[Last of the Mohicans]

If it was so obvious to you, why post it in the first place.

[RedMDer]

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[christx30]

And I hadn’t heard or thought a thing about Chubby Checker in about 8 to 10 years until I read this story.

[Revolting cat!]

Chubby twistin at the White House with the First Lady.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

For someone who’s name is a mimic of Fats Domino he is awfully sensitive about copyright infringement.

[Hardraade]

Yep :). But never fear, HP is almost as bad as Apple.

[JoeProBono]

[sushiman]

Their desktops are nothing to write home about either . Nothing but trouble .

[Revolting cat!]

[EDINVA]

If he has any kind of copyright protection of his name, he would have a case. Remember, Sarah and Bristol Palin both copyrighted/trademarked their names, or at least applied to get that protection for the use of their names.

[a fool in paradise]

Here he is with the members of the Grateful Dead.

Did they all sing Chubby's song Stoned In The Bathroom together?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5O2haYtQlk

[a fool in paradise]

Whoever gave Ernest Evans his nick stole the idea from Fats Domino.

Blame Dick Clark who took a man who was pushing a broom and got him to cover Hank Ballard's song The Twist before it could become a hit. Dick hated Hank Ballard and his "dirty songs" so he found a sound-alike performer. Chubby's cover sounded enough like Hank's original that Hank did a double-take when he heard it on the radio.

It was Clark’s wife who completed his recording name. There was already a Fats Domino, so why not continue the game theme? Because of the Clarks, the world was introduced to a singer named Chubby Checker.

[Moltke]

Just for the record, my feet are larger than John Holmes’s were...(ahem)

Tort reform. The US, it needs. /Joda

[Moltke]

If he has any kind of copyright protection of his name, he would have a case.

Not necessarily. Remember, a trademark only offers protection for specific goods/services (there are 45 distinct classes of goods and services). Something a lay person easily overlooks.

And protection for any goods/services that have not been in use for a specified time are void by statute.

[Moltke]

“are void” = is void.

[funfan]

Hahaha.

[Fiji Hill]

He may be filing silly lawsuits these days, but Chubby Checker was rocking the airwaves during the Cuban Missile Crisis:

Popeye (the Hitchhiker) (1962)

[Fiji Hill]

I saw Chubby Checker and Fats Domino perform in Las Vegas in February, 1991. It was Checker who announced to the audience the armistice that concluded the first Iraqi War.

Although Fats Domino didn't sing, he put on a virtuoso performance on the piano, and he was backed by a band of solid rockers. Checker's performance was OK, but this was clearly not the Chubby Checker of 1960.