Castroneves Sues Stewart for Copyright Infringement
IRL driver Helio Castroneves has officially filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania court against Nascar driver Tony Stewart. The nature of the lawsuit centers around Stewart's copying of Castroneves' signiature victory celebration of climbing the retaining wall fence.
"Mr. Stewart has been warned many times by our legal team to stop using Mr. Castroneves' signiature celebration" explained Castroneves' car owner Roger Penske. "However, when Mr. Stewart refused to respond to our cease and desist letter, we felt that we had to get the law involved."
Penske pointed to Castroneves' long history of using the unique celebration, dating back several years. Stewart, Penske contends, only started using the move at the Pepsi 400 in Jooo-lie.
Furthering Penske's ire is Stewart's insistence on claiming the celebration as his own invention.
"Mr. Stewart's comments following his recent win were completely unacceptable--he faunted our insistence that, if he does do the celebration, that he AT LEAST credit Helio with inventing it", Penske explained.
Legal experts believe that Penske and Castroneves have a case, pointing to Stewart's comments after the race: "This is my celebration. This is mine. Mine mine mine. All mine mine miney mine. M-Y-N-E mine."
Spiderman was unavailable for commment.
2 Comments:
Maybe Penske will use this as leverage to get Smoke into the 2 so he can do the Memorial Double.
What about Jimmy Piersall
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