Have the Germans gone crazy?

Hot off the heals of the Sozialgericht Bremen case, another bizarre C&D case out of Germany with blogger Patrick Breitenbach receiving a Cease and Desist notice from the father of Supermodel Heidi Klum for the crime of featuring her name in his post URL, in this case
www.werbeblogger.de/index.php/
2004/11/30/heidi_klum_wird_mchottie

the URL for the post being based on the title Heidi Klum wird McHottie (quite a standard way of setting up a URL).

(via Steve Rubel)

According to Patrick, Klum’s father has now taken it to his lawyers. The full list of events can be read at his blog here.

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