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Thread started 07/19/07 3:27pm

Serena

Usher goes after one of his fan websites

http://www.tmz.com

(They have an excerpt from the letter the website owner received, but it can't be copy/pasted.)

Usher Raymond is determined to sanitize all the Usher news around, even if he's got to strong-arm his biggest fan site with legal action in order to keep it that way. But the webmaster of the site tells TMZ she's willing to slug it out in court with her fave R&B star, just to make her point.

Erika Jackson, webmaster of usherforever.com, tells TMZ that she's been hit with a full-scale legal blitz from a tag-team of both Usher's personal lawyer and his label's lawyers, and claims that the trouble started earlier this year when she refused to turn her site -- the self-proclaimed "biggest Usher site" on the Internet -- into a sanitized official site. (The legal threats were first reported by the New York Daily News.)

Not long after, says Jackson, the lawyers tried to bring the hammer down on her, demanding that she "assign the url usherforever.com" to LaFace Records, Usher's label, because it might confuse fans into thinking that it had an affiliation to Usher. Jackson points out that other sites -- like Usher.net and UsherRaymond.org -- that are closer in name to the singer -- haven't been accused of being "confusing."

Usher attacked the media and even fans last week in an open letter to People, saying that speculation about his relationship with fiancee Tameka Foster and the reported firing of his mom as manager were "disturbing." A defiant Jackson says that she won't lay down and that she's prepared to go to court with Usher.
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Reply #1 posted 07/19/07 3:43pm

MikeMatronik

confused
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Reply #2 posted 07/19/07 5:46pm

SexyBeautifulO
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I told y'all Usher wanted to be just like Prince!! razz
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Reply #3 posted 07/19/07 8:30pm

ABeautifulOne

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The only reason he wants to do that is because he wants them all to pay to use the site much like his official fanclub site...
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Reply #4 posted 07/20/07 4:50am

CandaceS

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SexyBeautifulOne said:

I told y'all Usher wanted to be just like Prince!! razz


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Maybe HQ should go to TMZ next time they get a cease and desist letter from the Purple Police! hmmm
"I would say that Prince's top thirty percent is great. Of that thirty percent, I'll bet the public has heard twenty percent of it." - Susan Rogers, "Hunting for Prince's Vault", BBC, 2015
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Reply #5 posted 07/20/07 4:55am

SoulAlive

They were talking about this on the radio yesterday lol Apparently,the real story is that Usher is pissed because Erika (the webmaster) has said some less-than-flattering things about his fiance.She also criticized Usher's decision to fire his mother as his manager.Doesn't he realize that,on the Internet,fans have the freedom to say whatever they like? nuts

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Reply #6 posted 07/21/07 8:02pm

lilgish

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SexyBeautifulOne said:

I told y'all Usher wanted to be just like Prince!! razz

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Reply #7 posted 07/21/07 8:34pm

MsMisha319

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Usher sucks. And his fiancee looks as old as his mama



Smooches;)
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