We don't talk much about Lady Gaga on this site for a reason, there are many of them, just pick one. But what we do talk about is video games and Moshi Monsters is slowly developing a following as one of those mass marketable e-children products, much like Neopets was (remember them, the one you chose is dying) back in the early 2000's and how Farmville kind of is now.

Anyway, Lady Gaga took Moshi Monster creators to court for the fact that they created a creature known as Lady Goo Goo, which was a slight imitation of sorts of Gaga's appearance. The creature in question is some kind of malnourished baby with weird sunglasses, the "moshling" seemed to be enough of a likeness for the courts to have Gaga win the case and add to her pile of weird looking cash.

The CEO for the Moshi Monster company said they were disappointed with the ruling as kids had come to really like the Lady Goo Goo character. There are 50 million kids on Moshi Monsters, I doubt that many liked the Lady Goo Goo character enough to warrant an outcry and if it did, I hope their parents would reprimand them for it. (QJ.net has advised me that reprimanding should mean talk to them properly about fictional characters)

The court's said no to the kid's MMO creators saying that legally anything "promoting, advertising, selling, distributing or otherwise making available to the public the Moshi Dance or any musical work or video which purports to be performed by the name of  Lady Goo Goo, or which otherwise usses the name Lady Goo Goo or any variant thereon ", in basic legalise, that just means, don't you dare use anything musical or otherwise which kinda looks like our star as a baby."

The icing on the cake with this story is the lawyers mainly argued that young children may have trouble differentiating the cartoon monster from the American pop star...

Via [GamesIndusry.Biz]

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