{"id":656727,"date":"2013-05-08T11:20:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T15:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=228881"},"modified":"2013-05-08T11:20:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T15:20:33","slug":"dr-phil-sues-gawker-media-over-teo-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/656727","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Phil Sues Gawker Media Over Te\u2019o Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Phil, as we previously reported<\/a>, is suing Gawker media for their release of footage from an interview with Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the man who fooled football star Manti Te’o into believing he was a woman for over a year. Now, we’re seeing verbiage from court documents leaked online which talk about the lawsuit. <\/p>\n

The talk-show host says that Gawker-owned Deadspin was not within their rights when they published a clip of the interview which showed Tuiasosopo speaking in the voice he used to trick Te’o; Te’o claims he never knew he was speaking to a man and carried on a long-distance “relationship” with what he thought was a woman named Lennay Kekua. Tuiasosopo killed Kekua off by telling Te’o she had cancer. The exclusive interview Phil landed with Tuiasosopo was broken up into two parts; the first part ended in a “cliffhanger”, as he was supposed to speak for the first time on camera in Lennay’s voice. Phil says that because Deadspin published that footage before his viewers had a chance to see the episode, they messed with his ratings. <\/p>\n

“Gawker deliberately set out to get ‘the jump’ on the rest of the country and ‘scoop’ Dr. Phil with his own content,” the lawsuit said<\/a>. “They did not ask permission, they blatantly and knowingly infringed the copyright of the content owner and did so in a way that furthered their interest to the maximum and undercut the rightful owner of the protected material.”<\/p>\n

Phil is suing for unspecified damages.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Phil, as we previously reported, is suing Gawker media for their release of footage from an interview with Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the man who fooled football star Manti Te’o into believing he was a woman for over a year. Now, we’re seeing verbiage from court documents leaked online which talk about the lawsuit. The talk-show […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}