Actor Clint Eastwood has opened legal fire on a furniture company over a chair they call ‘The Eastwood’. The Oscar-winner is suing Palliser Furniture, which offers a line of home-theatre seats branded after actors such as Marlon Brando, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Charles Bronson and Sean Connery. But unimpressed Eastwood is accusing the company of trading off his fame and has launched action in the U.S District Court in Los Angeles. “Mr. Eastwood had a longstanding history of rejecting third-party licenses, reserving the exploitation of his personality rights and the goodwill associated therewith to his motion picture and other entertainment-related projects and to other business ventures in which Mr. Eastwood is personally involved,” court papers state. The 77 year-old wants unspecified damages and the court to impose an injunction on the firm to prevent them advertising and selling the offending chair.
[Source:The Mirror]
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