LAWSUIT LOST
“BOOP-A-DOOP” CTRL NEW YORK, May 7. Helen Kane, tho “Boop-a-Doop” singer, lost her big claim for damages against the Paramount Cinema Company, for alleged infringement of copyright, ' „ Alter a spectacular three weeks’ trial, Judge McGoldrick found that her singing technique ; was common to a number of “Boop-a-Doopers,” even before she claimed to have invented the idea and mannerisms. Helen Kane, who claimed to be the pioneer of “Boop-a-Doop,” sued Max Fleischer, the cartoonist, and the Paramount Cinertia 'Company for 250,000 dollars (£50,000) for the alleged appropriating of the “Boop-a-Doop” idea. Fleischer insisted that the Betty Boop of the films was a creature of his own imagination, although ante-dated by “Boop-a-Doop.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18398, 16 May 1934, Page 2
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