Shirley Caesar Sues To Remove “U Name It” Challenge
Pastor Shirley Caesar has had enough of people profiting off her sermon and she’s filed an injunction to stop its unauthorized use.
DJ Suede who originated the viral #UNameItChallenge, has been hit with a lawsuit after attorneys say Ceaser’s suffered $5 million in losses.
Furthermore, his videos “violated” Caesar’s Christian brand and should be removed.
Caesar’s lead attorney, James Walker, saying a judge agrees with Caesar’s claim that at least one of DJ Suede’s videos needed to be taken down.
Walker said the judge decided the video, which is linked below, and its several images of alcohol “violate the brand, image and name of a Christian pastor”, referring to Caesar.
Walker said, as of Thursday evening, the video was still up.
“DJ Suede and his management were in conversations with her lawyer. They didn’t reach an agreement and they put it out anyway,” Hatchett said.
DJ Suede
Walker says an initial remix of the video, also shown below, was a hit with Caesar and her family. During the craze of the “You Name it Challenge”, it was one of many that were posted on social media.
“Unknown to us, he made the second video,” Walker said.
As previously reported Shirley’s also profiting via her #UNameItChallenge with merchandise.
Do YOU think DJ Suede should take down his #UNameItChallenge videos???
More details of her lawsuit on the flip.
DJ Suede has apparently profited off the challenge and sold a #UNameItChallenge video on iTunes. The lawsuit also adds that Snoop Dogg’s made a version of the challenge that Caesar approves of.
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Judge Glenda Hatchett, the former juvenile court judge — now a high-profile Atlanta-area attorney is working with Walker’s office on the case — alleges the song jeopardized a deal her client, Caesar, was working on with famed rapper Snoop Dogg, also known as Snoop Lion.
They said the proceeds from that deal would have gone to help the hungry.
The version made by Snoop, also posted below was a clean version made in the midst of the craze as well. Walker said the goal of that video was to send a message to other people on the internet
“Snoop did his clean version to send the message that ‘this is Shirley Caesar’, We need to honor her,'” he said.
Walker said his video was made in response to lewd videos posted during the viral craze.
Should Pastor Shirley let this lawsuit go or does she have a right to sue DJ Suede???
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