I found a story on STLtoday.com, from the Associated Press (11-25-08), that the city of Louisville received a cease and desist order from Dr. Seuss Enterprises for their plans to use Dr. Seuss village and characters as part of its annual Christmas display.
The city had planned to use "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" as their theme for the annual Light Up Louisville celebration. The display required complete costumes characters from the Dr. Seuss classics. The cease-and-desist letter from DLA Piper, who represents Dr. Seuss Enterprises, said the "Who--ville" name and image, as well as the characters, are copyrighted and couldn't be used without permission.
The city complied with the demanding letter to halt any use of the characters. They were also planning to call their display, "LouWhoVille" but renamed it to "Lou-ville". Lame! I'm surprised no one thought they may run into trouble with using the characters. I suppose they know better now!
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