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Hall of Fame Singer (And Her Pit Bull Lawyer) Sue 72andSunny Over An Ad The Agency Says It Didn't Make

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer Darlene Love has named Google and 72andSunny in a lawsuit which claims a holiday ad for Google's Nexus 5X and 6P used Love's song, "It's a Marshmallow World" without permission. The lawsuit dubs 72andSunny "a scab shop" and charges Google with "anti-labor advertising practices."

Oh but wait! So-called "scab shop" 72andSunny says it didn't create the Google ad. Whoops. Undeterred, Love's Lawyer, Steven Ames Brown, like every fun-loving pit bull of a lawyer, said: "They have just raised that question with me, and we are researching. We didn’t sue them by accident. I’ve been doing this since 1988. This is the first time anyone has come up and said, ‘I didn’t make the commercial.’"

The suit seeks more than $75,000 in damages but Brown aims to get more, saying: "You can rest assured that the amount of money we want is substantially higher." 

Of mistakenly calling 72andSunny a "scab shop," Brown added: "It was non-union whoever [Google] used, so the language would be the same." Yup, all you agencies that don't play the SAG-AFTRA game are scab shops, it seems. 

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And while 72andSunny may be off the hook this time, pit bull Brown has his eye on the shop, noting: "If they didn’t make this commercial, it’s the luck of the draw. They are not a union signatory, and they use pop music in commercials, so sooner or later I’m going to sue them."

I wonder what it's like to be a person who gets so much joy out of kicking people in the nuts on a daily basis. 

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