LeVar Burton can now use his Reading Rainbow catchphrase with impunity
Because the world is overwhelmingly sad and frustrating these days, LeVar Burton was sued back in August by New York public broadcasting network WNED for using his old Reading Rainbow catchphrase—”but you don’t have to take my word for it”—on his LeVar Burton Reads podcast. WNED owns the rights to Reading Rainbow, but with Burton launching a successful Kickstarter campaign to pay for a digital revival of the classic PBS show and his aforementioned podcast being widely perceived as “Reading Rainbow for adults,” WNED evidently got nervous that the intellectual property was being stolen by Burton and his RRKidz company (which had secured the rights to make the digital Reading Rainbow revival).
