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Barney Settlement Victory.

November 29th, 2006 by Laura Quilter

Barney’s humorless owners at the Lyons Partnership have on more than one occasion attempted to stifle humorous and parodic takes on the purple dinosaur. EFF stepped up to the plate in 2001, and more recently, in defending Stuart Frankel’s online parody. After EFF filed for declaratory judgement that the parody was lawful (complaint,8/23), Lyons settled Monday, 11/27, agreeing to pay Frankel a $5,000 settlement, and promising not to sue or make any other claims against Frankel or his ISP based on the Barney parody.