Jeff Dunham suing bootleg coronavirus merch makers for stealing his intellectual property
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Enraged at the idea of a world in which a white guy can make millions upon millions of dollars for doing a comedy routine where he makes stereotype-heavy jokes while holding up a sombrero-wearing jalapeno pepper on a stick —and then has to watch all that hard-wrought intellectual property get ripped off by scammers—Jeff Dunham is headed to the courts. Still the ninth-highest paid comedian on the planet, Dunham is suing a company called Ooshirts, Inc. on allegations that it’s been using images of Dunham’s various ventriloquism characters to sell T-shirts and coronavirus masks.
