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Steven Tyler Sues Faux-Steven Tylers Over Impersonator Blogs
Published 9/25/2008 by Daniel Kreps at Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily
... Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler has sued a pair of unknown bloggers for reportedly impersonating the frontman on the internet. In the lawsuit, Tyler complains that bloggers writing as Tyler provided intimate details concerning the singer’s actual life, including discussing the death of Tyler’s mother and impersonating Tyler’s girlfriend. Tyler was first hit by faux blogs in 2007, but Google intervened to take the sites down. This year, Blogspot was the host of the Tyler impersonators, but those sites have been shut down due to “service ...

Dude Looks Like A Blogger: Steven Tyler Not Very Pleased With Whoever's Been Copping His Style Online [Impersonations]
Published 9/25/2008 by Maura Johnston at Idolator
... through a few other blog posts, and things seem kinda tame—if a little bit overly obsessed with the minutiae of Tyler's life. (And I suspect that Tyler, er, drew the line at posts involving his mother.) But if impersonating a celebrity online is all of a sudden a sueable offense, then I know of a lot of role-playing forums that'll be filled with members crapping e-bricks/going private tout de suite. Any lawyers out there want to weigh in on this? Aerosmith's Tyler suing over blog impersonations [Reuters] ST here, from tail of a ...

Steven Tyler is Suing Bloggers
Published 9/25/2008 by liz at Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton
... Aerosmith's Steven Tyler is suing some unknown bloggers for impersonating him and his girlfriend Erin Brady on the internetz and writing about intimate details - including the death of his mother. ...