You have gotta love this. Warner Bros, a company that works its hardest to thwart piracy, has been accused of knowingly allowing a knock-off Louis Vuitton handbag to be used in the movie Hangover II:
In a complaint filed Thursday in Manhattan, luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton accused Warner Bros of ignoring its instructions not to use a fake handbag in an airport scene in the Hangover II. In the scene, Alan (played by Zach Galifianakis) carries luggage marked LVM and warns another character “Careful, that is.. that is a Louis Vuitton.”
At first, this case might sound a little absurd, but there's a reason that a lot of film production companies use products in their movies that "look like" the real thing, but are edited in such a way that they can avoid being sued. Like a cold can of 7P for example, or Sprit.
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-louis-vuitton-sues-warner-bros-for-using-fake-bag-in-hangover-ii/
In a complaint filed Thursday in Manhattan, luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton accused Warner Bros of ignoring its instructions not to use a fake handbag in an airport scene in the Hangover II. In the scene, Alan (played by Zach Galifianakis) carries luggage marked LVM and warns another character “Careful, that is.. that is a Louis Vuitton.”
At first, this case might sound a little absurd, but there's a reason that a lot of film production companies use products in their movies that "look like" the real thing, but are edited in such a way that they can avoid being sued. Like a cold can of 7P for example, or Sprit.
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-louis-vuitton-sues-warner-bros-for-using-fake-bag-in-hangover-ii/