Linda McMahon sued by his wife, the WWE wrestler Owen Hart Name and likeness of Owen in the video, websites, television and print material without my knowledge, much less adopted me, "Martha Hart said Tuesday morning during a press conference Hartford, announcing the action. "In addition to being patently insensitive to me and my children are in direct violation of the contract, signed by Owen WWE before his death."
Owen Hart has participated in numerous charitable activities and his death, Martha Hart has tried to continue his work through a foundation that bears his name. The WWE has a public image that is "incompatible with the proper working of the institution,''said the trial.
Hart told McMahon he would not repeat her husband associated with WWE, but they continue to "exploit" the legacy of commercial profit, depending on treatment.
"It really needs to question the moral character of Vince McMahon and Linda and how they operate,''Hart said." These same people whose dangerous operation of my husband led to her death is to the advantage of again. In short, the WWE and the McMahon family have benefited from the tragic death of Owen and apparently intend to continue to do so until ordered by the court to stop.''
Linda McMahon has been endorsed Republican candidate against Democrat Richard Blumenthal, the Attorney General of the State. The campaign refused to comment on the accusations of Hart. "I do not think you see what happened today, if Linda does not work for the Senate," said McDevitt. Martha Hart has denied the case had nothing to do with the campaign, but said voters in Connecticut could be questionable morals Linda McMahon.
McMahon recently won the approval of the Republican Party to seek the seat that retiring Democrat Christopher Dodd of. She faces a primary challenge from businessman Weston Peter Schiff, a Republican, and former Representative Rob Simmons withdrew his name from ballot Aug. 10 primary.
McMahon, who has pledged to spend up to $ 50 million of his own money for the race, trails Democratic candidate, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, an opinion poll on the assumption of confrontations general election.
"The death of Owen Hart was a tragic accident and this claim is nothing more than pure political orchestration," said Robert Zimmerman, a spokesman for the WWE.
"For me and Vince and the WWE and the WWE fans, the heart and soul had come to Martha and two young children," McMahon told WFSB-TV in a taped interview Tuesday. "It was our desire ensure the Martha and the children were in care of the rest of their lives.
"This trial is a matter of copyright, a matter of contract that the WWE will do."
McDevitt, a WWE lawyer said that the company has the right to use the equipment, with Owen Hart. The listed company has posted the video in April called "Hart & Soul: The Anthology Hart family," starring Owen Hart and other wrestlers of the Hart family, some of which remain in WWE.
Martha Hart then learned about the other videos made in recent years, when he read the court documents filed in the WWE during the interim.
"Martha Hart has no exclusive right of the story of her husband is very simple," said McDevitt.
Besides stopping the WWE to use pictures of Owen Hart, Gregg Rubenstein, a lawyer based in Boston to Martha Hart, said his client as a personal representative of the estate late husband, is seeking profits arising in the case of video and other materials that would be due under his contract with WWE. WWE attorney has said it will be until the court decides if the property is due money from the sale of the video.
Owen Hart died May 23, 1999, after falling from a device about 80 feet tall in the ring before a crowd of 16,500 people in Kemper Arena in Kansas City, MO Hart, who raided antenna the ring, fell after the device is using his body to damage rigging, McDevitt said.
Both McDevitt and Rubenstein agree there is nothing in a WWE illegal settlement reached with Martha Hart died in 2000 at the company to use the picture of Owen Hart.
However, Rubenstein points to a provision of the 1996 agreement with the guard Titan Sports Owen Hart - a former name of the wrestling company - which says the control of the "original intellectual property," as the legal name, the ring name along the likeness, personality, character, cartoons, voices, jokes and routines, returns a wrestler after the expiry of the contract.
Rubenstein said the contract was ended when Owen Hart died, and Martha Hart and control the property of Owen Hart in his likeness, name and fame.
That contract, signed by Linda McMahon, said the candidate, licensees and sub-licenses "may continue to use materials, products, goods and other items that contain an original intellectual property is made before the end until that all materials, products and goods sold. The widow of Hart, who fell to his death during a fight in the Gulf in Kansas City May 23, 1999, said he heard about the upcoming WWE video including pictures of her deceased husband.
After unsuccessfully sought to stop the WWE and not with pictures of her husband, Hart said he learned of the Empire Wrestling "had made the video and print materials for years with Owen .
"They have created a false connection between me, WWE and likeness of Owen.
Being sued by the president of the company based in Connecticut, the Vince McMahon and his wife, former WWF executive Linda McMahon.
Hart also requires rights to income from employment offers dead wrestler who came from the address family famous Calgary.
Greg Rubenstein, a lawyer for Hart, said it was unclear how the property will seek Hart.
"We'll find it all - we know so far people are very passionate about Owen and his struggle, he said.
