This seems pretty open and shut in Prospect Park's favor. From the signed amendment that ABC breached, to signing the GH characters to long term contracts to not even attempting to wrap up their story when they knew 100% that OLTL was coming back. I just wonder how these three characters were important enough to ABC to spend so much money. This is ridiculous. I know many say that the PP deal was dead in the water, but we all know behind the scenes they HAD to be doing something. They didn't just pop up with this money in December. Also, I'm sure they have proof that ABC violated their story approval, something they ABSOLUTELY should've had. ABC shouldn't have even questioned that! I know it may seem like no big deal to kill Hope and Cole, but both are legacy characters. Cole is the son of two popular OLTL characters and Hope is Viki's granddaughter! NO OLTL characters should've been killed off on another show where they couldn't be properly grieved. And none of that was necessary to launch these characters on a new show. In fact, it made the story more far-fetched because in a situation like this, a character like Starr would be more likely to move home, rather than stay in a new town with no friends to relieve the memories of her daughter dying.

Ron Carlivati and Frank Valentini made their thoughts on PP so public and obvious and the writing speaks for itself. I really don't see how PP could lose this lawsuit. I'm sure they'll end up settling out of court though.

ABC can sign any individual they want as long as that individual agrees. They didn't have to inform anyone or ask permission. Once PP asked GH to cease and desist, they did as evidenced by not one person being able to speak the name of any of the characters.

The only possible open and shut part about this is the URL mess and the ads.

No, PP must prove damages. Its true ABC may give them money in a settlement just to get them to go away. But you must prove actual damages from the breach to prevail in court. Google "elements of a contract claim" if you do not believe me.

I worked as a court clerk for 5 Years. If U Breach You will pay something just for the breach itself

ABC can sign any individual they want as long as that individual agrees. They didn't have to inform anyone or ask permission. Once PP asked GH to cease and desist, they did as evidenced by not one person being able to speak the name of any of the characters.

The only possible open and shut part about this is the URL mess and the ads.

And the use Of Tomas since he was never loaned to GH in the first place

Does anyone else think this may be a genius publicity stunt by PP? ABC is claiming they haven't been served, the complaint looks like it was written by some intense fan ("soapocalypse" "epic" and exclamation points are not things you usually see in legal documents), the damages request is excessive and will be laughed out of court. A week away from the premiere, they are getting all kinds of coverage. If so, I say good strategy Prospect and godspeed. If this is real, I wish they would have just left GH alone after securing the domain names (the only reasonable request in the entire absurd complaint) and focused on the amazing OLTL canon of characters available to them- some much history they could mine.

Does anyone else think this may be a genius publicity stunt by PP? ABC is claiming they haven't been served, the complaint looks like it was written by some intense fan ("soapocalypse" "epic" and exclamation points are not things you usually see in legal documents), the damages request is excessive and will be laughed out of court. A week away from the premiere, they are getting all kinds of coverage. If so, I say good strategy Prospect and godspeed. If this is real, I wish they would have just left GH alone after securing the domain names (the only reasonable request in the entire absurd complaint) and focused on the amazing OLTL canon of characters available to them- some much history they could mine.

It very well could be a stunt by both parties.

Does anyone else think this may be a genius publicity stunt by PP? ABC is claiming they haven't been served, the complaint looks like it was written by some intense fan ("soapocalypse" "epic" and exclamation points are not things you usually see in legal documents), the damages request is excessive and will be laughed out of court. A week away from the premiere, they are getting all kinds of coverage. If so, I say good strategy Prospect and godspeed. If this is real, I wish they would have just left GH alone after securing the domain names (the only reasonable request in the entire absurd complaint) and focused on the amazing OLTL canon of characters available to them- some much history they could mine.

Filing a lawsuit is a stupid and pricey way to get publicity especially for a new venture that suffered such a clunky start to begin with. I think it's far simpler than that. I think it's just ego and anger, some legitimate and some not.

Not that I've been following the chronicles of PP, but the fact that they've cited Turdly as an example of their gripe against ABC is reason enough for me to be on their side. If they win this lawsuit, well, this will be a perfect case of the chickens coming home to roost for Cartini and it'll serve them right.

Oy, this thread! You people are repeating yourselves, for Christ's sake!

Interesting how abc quickly gave them the urls honestly that means they really are scared. IMO the not advertising is not right. They want to make royalities I don't have a lick of sympathy for abc two years they could have cared less about us for their quest for greed.

Now folks over at DC are saying that PP suing ABC is causing mental damage to the fans. WTF? Seriously. SMDH.

Chances are, those fans were mentally damaged to begin with.

Now folks over at DC are saying that PP suing ABC is causing mental damage to the fans. WTF? Seriously. SMDH.

Where is this worry over damage from 5 straight years of stories about how mentally ill people are pathetic jokes and they need to be raped to make them right?

Chances are, those fans were mentally damaged to begin with.

=+1000000

Now folks over at DC are saying that PP suing ABC is causing mental damage to the fans. WTF? Seriously. SMDH.

Well if there's anyone who knows what mental damage looks like, it's the folks at DC.

Now folks over at DC are saying that PP suing ABC is causing mental damage to the fans. WTF? Seriously. SMDH.

Some fans have been singing for a while that PP wronged GH by taking back THEIR characters. How do you respond to that?

Chances are, those fans were mentally damaged to begin with.

Absolutely! Total loons!

Well if there's anyone who knows what mental damage looks like, it's the folks at DC.

#highfive

Some fans have been singing for a while that PP wronged GH by taking back THEIR characters. How do you respond to that?

"Hello, 9-1-1?"