Hotel Fights Museum Over Who Gets to Use Accused Murderer's Name
Oy. This world.
Lizzie Borden, the Massachusetts Sunday school teacher who was accused of murdering her mother and stepfather in 1892, committed her (alleged) famous crime in a home in Fall River, Mass.
That home is now a lucrative bed and breakfast (no, we don't know why anyone would want to stay there either) named after the lovely Lizzie herself! It features historical tours and a giftshop, essentially functioning like a museum. Unfortunately, someone up in Salem, Massachusetts wants to start up an official Lizzie Borden Museum (using her name and all)...and that's not gonna fly with the B&B owner.
So, according to USA Today, the owner of the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast is suing the owner of the Lizzie Borden Museum, insisting:
the attraction would infringe on his trademark of "Lizzie Borden Museum" and siphon business away from Fall River, a hardscrabble fishing community 80 miles south of Salem, which is in Boston's far-north suburbs.
Yeah, uh, guys? This is one of those situations in which it is probably appropriate -- and even recommended! -- that you step back and laugh at yourselves. Because, you know, you're suing each other over the use of some murderer chick's name. We get it and all, but really. We're not hating, we're just saying...
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