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Guilty! Crime and Punishment in the Doll Industry

December 7th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve commented before on the Barbie vs. Bratz case, and followed it with interest, but even I was surprised with the severity of the final judgement:

  • MGA must immediately stop making Bratz dolls
  • MGA must pull all Bratz Dolls off the shelves and out of the stores.
  • MGA must pay the retailers for the unsold dolls AND pay for shipping back to MGA
  • And of course there was the original $10 million fine for Copyright infringement, and $90 million for breach of contract
  • If this is your first exposure to the story, let me summarize:

    What was the crime? Getting paid by one company to design a doll, and then selling that doll to another company. Why is it a story? Because the Bratz dolls started beating the crap out of Barbie Dolls. What is the result? See above. But what I really want to know, now that they’ve won, is Mattel going to start selling Bratz?

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