Quotes like these always make pro se lawsuits an interesting read: Seuss estate even had the Plaintiff arrested for extortion in 2003. The prior history, at least the Plaintiff’s side, is set forth in detail in the Complaint. The Plaintiff has a long history with the Seuss estate, including several prior lawsuits, including most recently the Federal Court of Canada, which dismissed its suit on jurisdictional grounds in April 2017. You be the judge after reading the Complaint (below). The Plaintiff’s itemized list of “plagiarized elements” begins on page 31 of the Complaint. Plaintiff’s story is about Lukus Loo, a boy(?) seemingly missing the top of his head, sometimes covering it with a crown, sometimes with three flowers. Seuss Enterprises of stealing the character “Daisy-Head Mayzie” from his children’s story, “The Pains of Being Pure at Heart.”ĭaisy-Head Mayzie is about a girl who suddenly sprouts a daisy from her head. This rather lengthy, interesting, and unorthodox copyright complaint, filed by a pro se author, accuses Dr.
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