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One trillion dollar lawsuit

Will E Worm

Conspiracy...
Winfrey faces $1 trillion lawsuit.

Oprah Winfrey is facing a staggering $1 trillion legal battle over allegations she passed another author's work off as her own.

The TV titan, one of America's highest earning celebrities, is being sued by author Damon Lloyd Goffe who accuses the media mogul and her production company Harpo Inc. of plagiarizing his book A Tome of Poetry in her Internet published work Pieces of My Soul.

And in a copyright infringement suit filed at the District of Columbia Court on July 31, Goffe insists Winfrey even admitted she used his original works in 2008, reports the National Enquirer.

In the documents, he writes, "In April 2008 Oprah confessed to seizing original works of authorship."

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Could be the end of "the Oprah." :D
 

Ace Bandage

The one and only.
And in a copyright infringement suit filed at the District of Columbia Court on July 31, Goffe insists Winfrey even admitted she used his original works in 2008, reports the National Enquirer.

Well, at least we're using reliable sources... :hatsoff:
 

Namreg

Banned
Goffe and his legal team are seeking the huge amount in damages, claiming that as Winfrey sold an alleged 650 million copies of the book online for $20 a time, he is owed $1.2 trillion.


650 million books... that is total BS. that would mean every person in the US and canada bought it twice. or the combined populations of the US, canada, and western europe.
of course, there are a lot of retards who would buy oprah shit, but THAT MANY?!
 

feller469

Moving to a trailer in Fife, AL.
wow, so much hatred for the O-Monster. It's not like she built an all-girls school in South Africa and had sexual deviants among the faculty. Geez
 

Ace Bandage

The one and only.
You're not going to remove Oprah from power. She's the President of the World - at least to all of the women. She's going to have an enormous amount of funds to combat this lawsuit. She'll settle out of court for a couple of hundred million dollars at the most. That's couch cushion change to her.
 

Will E Worm

Conspiracy...
You're not going to remove Oprah from power. She's the President of the World - at least to all of the women. She's going to have an enormous amount of funds to combat this lawsuit. She'll settle out of court for a couple of hundred million dollars at the most. That's couch cushion change to her.

All women?

While the camera cuts to shots of her 90% white audience. :D


Ludacris has lashed out at Oprah Winfrey, after he was initially refused to appear on her prime time talk show, and then publicly lectured when he was finally allowed on the show...

“She edited out a lot of my comments while keeping her own in. Of course, it’s her show, but we were doing a show on racial discrimination and she gave me a hard time as a rapper when I came on there as an actor,”

“I don’t see why [comedians] Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle, who I am huge fans of, it’s OK for them to go on Oprah. They speak the same language as I do, but they do it through comedy, so I guess that’s acceptable to her [Oprah]....”


Ludacris also stated that Oprah has sold out to white women.

She just loves the money so much.

50Cent: Oprah Has Become White.
 

feller469

Moving to a trailer in Fife, AL.
she sold out to maintaining a lifestyle we can barely afford the magazines to read about it in. She didn't sell-out to white America, she sold out to mega-rich. It's all image and illusion. The women love the idea of "Oprah" without really knowing Oprah. Same goes for most of the icons today. Look at Hugh Grant, that guy cheated on his gorlfriend with a hooker and women still are snapping their pelvises trying to wrap their legs around the movie-screen image of him.
 

titsrock

I'm too lazy to set a usertitle.
Somehow, I think Oprah will be sleeping well at night even with this lawsuit hanging over head....

The words "nuisance lawsuit" seem to come to mind, and I suspect Oprah will put together a strong counterlawsuit and squash this nobody like the turd he probably is....
 

Ace Bandage

The one and only.
Really, Will? I make a post about her being the President of the World, but the part you take seriously is the "at least to women" part. African-Americans constitute roughly 14% of the American population. So judging by that, I suppose your 90% female audience is just about in line. I couldn't care less about Oprah. If people want to vilify her for this, so be it. It makes no difference to me.
 

BDwestcoast

Perverts Я Us
If you're going to sue for a trill. How much do you settle for?
 

Galactic

Pain heals, chicks dig scars, Freeones lasts forever
Damn....I saw the title, and thought maybe Dr. Evil was suing someone.....ah, it's just Oprah.......oh well.......
 

Supafly

Moderator
Staff member
Bronze Member
Guys, let's stay on topic. It's not about her being black, or female, or selling out or something, it's about a small portion of her book probably not being written by herself.

The numbers may be right, I for one do not believe the 650 million pieces have gotten sold. Let's assume it is.

If the one poem is, say, a hundreth of the book, and she made 650 x 20 $, that would make a total sale value of 13.000 million bucks.

But he can't get the sale value, only the net gain from that number. Let's say, that is 10 %. Now there is the 1.3 trillion.

But we have to make the hundreth part division due to his very small part in the book, so:

1.3 trillion / 100 = 13 billion.

But I'd say he will finally get something between 1.3 million and 13 million.
 
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Kingfisher

Here Zombie, Zombie, Zombie...
1 Trillion dollars? That will never happen. But I'm all in favor of someone taking the wind out of her sails, so to speak. Actually think of all the jobs this lawsuit will produce...
 
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