March 21. 2009

Simon Fuller and Simon Cowell - two animals that made their fortune from ripping off others and bringing slavery back. They parade around like they are the masters of the universe, when they are two untalented, horn dog, hacks ripping off everybody and shaming themselves and their families in the process. They only know how to over-market, water down and bastardize projects they steal, but know nothing about music. These two losers love showing off their wealth from the slave trade, constantly buying expensive homes and cars and taking extended vacations.

Employees of the company Freemantle, who are the makers of the television show "American Idol" have been sued in a class action lawsuit by their own employees for overworking them without paying for overtime, falsifying and altering their time cards to cheat workers out of their wages and denying them a break during the work day.

I am not surprised at this news. I referred to them as slaveholders, regarding the criminal copyright infringement they engaged in at my expense in conjunction with Sony, who distributes all the "American Idol" and "X-Factor" recordings. Freemantle has been a visitor to this website for years and has come up in the site statistics - even prior to them ripping off my copyrights, when they shouldn't have known anything about me.

The idea for the show "American Idol" wasn't even their own  - they stole it from a man in Texas that pitched it to them. When he sued, they shamefully bought out the court case. Freemantle is a greedy, unconscionable, unscrupulous company that has made a fortune off breaking intellectual property and wage laws, but refuses to pay people for their labor, like the slave trade is still going on. That's disgusting and it is legally going to catch up with you.

STORY SOURCE

"American Idol" producer hit with lawsuit

Thu Mar 19, 8:54 pm ET - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Former employees have filed a class-action lawsuit against "American Idol" producer FremantleMedia North America. The suit alleges that the company systematically overworked employees without paying the required overtime, falsified time cards and denied staffers meals and rest periods.

"There's no Hollywood glamour for the below-the-line people who work on 'American Idol' and other reality shows who are grossly underpaid, worked 24/7 and receive no rest or meal breaks and no health coverage -- contrary to California labor laws," said the plaintiffs' attorney Jonathan Biddle...

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