By now many of us have seen this post on
Reddit. It is a post by a user named
CactusHam detailing how his mother, a muralist, painted a
wrestling themed mural for his room. The mural features such well known WWF stars as The Rock, Triple H, Mick Foley, and The Hurricane. Many of the comments made about this story noted how wonderful it was for a mother to do this for her son, as well as the loving detail shown throughout this work. That is what many people thought of this post. However, some people, in this cynical world that we find ourselves, choose to look at such things in a negative context. Some of those cynical people are lawyers.
Today, the World Wildlife Fund filed suit against the Reddit user known as CactusHam, and furthermore filed suit against Reddit seeking to find out more information about this CactusHam so they can further their civil lawsuit against him. When reached for comment, Irwin R. Schyster, general council for the World Wildlife Fund, gave the following reasoning for filing this lawsuit.
"While we at the World Wildlife Fund know that we took a public image hit when we filed a copyright lawsuit against the World Wrestling Federation, we felt that was important to vigorously defend out rightly held copyrights. We take the same stance today. It is clear in the pictures posted online that this so called "CactusHam"'s so called "Mother" used the older version of the World Wrestling Federation logo, the very logo that we, the World Wildlife Fund, successfully contested in civil court. While we do not think that the artist responsible for this work had malicious intent in their use of the contested logo, it is still a priority to us to defend the use of that contested logo no matter the context of the use."
Both Reddit and CactusHam could not be reached for comment in this matter. When asked for their opinion, World Wrestling Entertainment sent us a form letter informing us of the current availability of the WWE Network.
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