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Report: Apple May Be Trying To Block Sales of Steve Jobs Action Figure [UPDATED]

by Eric Limer | 1:18 pm, January 5th, 2012

UPDATE: The Steve Jobs action figure has been officially cancelled. In Icons, the company responsible for the action figure, asserts they’ve done nothing wrong, but are backing down out of respect for Apple and the Jobs family. They will be refunding all preorders.

That Steve Jobs action figure is pretty cool, right? I mean, who wouldn’t want to have one? Apple apparently, and it looks like they don’t want you to have one either. According to the Telegraph, the company making the doll received a little letter from Apple, threatening legal action. The argument, it seems, is that Apple feels like it owns the rights to Steve Jobs. It’s worth noting that the Telegraph’s report of the legal trouble is cautiously worded and no sources are cited, so it might not be the real deal.

That being said, if it is the real deal and you want one of these puppies, you better sign up now. They aren’t due to start shipping until February and they already command a price of $100, a price that’s only going to skyrocket if the supply ends up limited. We’ll see if anything else comes to light. The discussion of who owns the rights to Steve Jobs could be a pretty interesting one.

(Telegraph via Gizmodo)

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  • kyle

    What’s Steve Jobs and Apple?

  • artillery boy

    I hate apple. They are really a bunch of pricks. They sue people for the stupidest reasons. Steve Jobs is not an apple product and therefore apple has no right or reason to sue this company or take legal action against the dolls production. The only people that could do that is Steve Jobs himself or his family. He is a public figure and a person and not the property of anyone but himself. Shame on apple for trying to gain money from products that they do not own……Again.

  • Asreal

    Over Christmas there was the usual “People who died in 2011″ on TV; you had stars who you felt genuine loss for, the fascists like Osama, Gaddafi, Kim Jong II etc etc (people who the world is generally better off without), and then you had Steve Jobs… who I was honestly just on the fence about… 

    On one hand he was the man behind Apple, revolutionising the industry with his products.  On the other, he appeared to be just arrogance personified (this was indeed shown through the actions of his company), and this little “doll” of Jobs kinda caps it off for me.

    While I’m sad that he’s not gonna be the driving force behind lots of cool new stuff, I’m SO SO glad that I’m not gonna have to keep reading about the prick =)

    (Well, unless it’s in articles like this :P)


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