Motion Picture Academy Sues Over Oscar Party Props

brWhen the CEO of Monte Carlo Productions in Atlanta got a letter from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences demanding that he stop throwing parties that included giant replicas of the Academy’s famous Oscar statuette as props, he thought it was the biggest joke that ever was. But the Academy wasn’t amused, and has now filed suit in federal court for copyright and trademark violations. The suit was prompted by the appearance of the Oscar replicas on the TV show The Real Housewives of Atlanta. a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=’http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202429561358rss=newswire’Click for more…/abr