MJ Estate stops fake "Heal The World" Copycat

nynyronynyro Posts: 296
edited January 1970 in News
I'm happy that the estate is taking action. A lot of fans are getting taken advantage of by theives.

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  • SabrinaSabrina Posts: 342
    MJ Estate Stops 'Heal the World' Copycat
    Originally posted Apr 27th 2010 9:45 AM PDT by TMZ Staff

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    Score another crushing victory for the Michael Jackson estate -- this time the MJ squad dropped the hammer on a woman who allegedly set up a sham Heal the World Foundation to dupe Jackson fans into buying merchandise.

    TMZ has learned a Federal judge issued an injunction against Melissa Johnson -- the woman behind a Heal the World Foundation website -- requiring her to stop "exploiting Michael Jackson's name, image and likeness."

    According to the court order, the judge ruled that Johnson -- who has attempted to register at least 40 trademarks with a direct connection to MJ -- operates websites that "convey to consumers a false affiliation with Michael Jackson."

    As you may recall, Jackson operated a legit Heal the World Foundation back in the day, but it had been inactive for many years prior to his death.

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  • I'm happy that the estate is taking action. A lot of fans are getting taken advantage of by theives.

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    MJ Estate Stops 'Heal the World' Copycat
    the world is full of thieves ... misuse HEAL THE WORLD is too much ... the whole world knows the song and the foundation...Please stop to use his DREAMS only to make money...
    I BELIEVE we can HEAL THE WORLD together Michael...
    But thank you TMZ/Harvey...you maintain MICHAEL always in yr home page!!

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    Please see this site now:
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    Dear HTWF members, due to the current lawsuit
    with The Estate of Michael Jackson, we must modify
    the contents of our website.
    The site will be under maintancence for a short time, while we bring the site under compliance to the requests of court.
    Please be patient with us as this process will take a few days.
    With Care,
    HTWF Staff


    And before using MICHAEL'S image:
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  • paula-cpaula-c Posts: 7,221
    These profiteers will disappear one to one .. <!-- s:mrgreen: -->:mrgreen:<!-- s:mrgreen: -->
  • It saddens me that these people are using MJ's image like that. <!-- s:x -->:x<!-- s:x --> <!-- s:x -->:x<!-- s:x --> <!-- s:cry: -->:cry:<!-- s:cry: -->
  • I'm glad that's finished now. One by one by one they are disappearing! <!-- s:mrgreen: -->:mrgreen:<!-- s:mrgreen: -->
  • SabrinaSabrina Posts: 342
    They changed the pictures :
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  • Interesting to see that the word "copycat" is used...
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