{"id":418924,"date":"2011-05-06T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/06\/keha-fighting-to-block-tiktik-tok-watch-strap\/"},"modified":"2011-05-06T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T23:16:00","slug":"keha-fighting-to-block-tiktik-tok-watch-strap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/06\/keha-fighting-to-block-tiktik-tok-watch-strap\/","title":{"rendered":"KE$HA FIGHTING TO BLOCK TIKTIK TOK WATCH STRAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div property=\"dc:description\" readability=\"39\"><span id=\"intelliTxt\"\/><\/p>\n<div readability=\"23\"><span id=\"intelliTxt\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span>Pop star KE$HA is taking legal action to stop the owners of an Illinois-based watch strap firm branding its latest product a name similar to her hit single Tik Tok.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The singer instructed her lawyers to fire off a cease and desist letter to Wimo Labs bosses last month (Apr11), claiming their product&#8217;s name, TikTok, was in &#8220;flagrant and conscious disregard&#8221; of her rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"intelliTxt\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span>Wimo Labs executives have now hit back and this week (begs02May11) filed papers requesting a federal court in Chicago to declare their TikTok watch strap does not constitute an infringement of Ke$ha&#8217;s copyright, because consumers are unlikely to associate the star with the product.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"intelliTxt\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span>Ke$ha&#8217;s song became a chart smash worldwide in 2009, launching her as a pop star.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contactmusic.com\/news.nsf\/story\/keha-fighting-to-block-tiktik-tok-watch-strap_1217198\" title=\"KE$HA FIGHTING TO BLOCK TIKTIK TOK WATCH STRAP\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KE$HA FIGHTING TO BLOCK TIKTIK TOK WATCH STRAP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Pop star KE$HA is taking legal action to stop the owners of an Illinois-based watch strap firm branding its latest product a name similar to her hit single Tik Tok. The singer instructed her lawyers to fire off a cease and desist letter to Wimo Labs bosses last month (Apr11), claiming their product&#8217;s name, TikTok, was in &#8220;flagrant and conscious disregard&#8221; of her rights. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-418924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>KE$HA FIGHTING TO BLOCK TIKTIK TOK WATCH STRAP - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/06\/keha-fighting-to-block-tiktik-tok-watch-strap\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"KE$HA FIGHTING TO BLOCK TIKTIK TOK WATCH STRAP - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Pop star KE$HA is taking legal action to stop the owners of an Illinois-based watch strap firm branding its latest product a name similar to her hit single Tik Tok. 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