‘Dallas’-Related Merchandise Sparks Warner Bros. Lawsuit

Studio claims Tennessee company is selling unauthorized Ewing Oil products

There’s more drama brewing at Southfork — this time of the legal variety.

Warner Bros. Entertainment has slapped a Tennessee man with a copyright infringement lawsuit over merchandise related to the TV series “Dallas.”

In the lawsuit, filed in U.S. district court in Florida on Tuesday, Warner Bros. claims that Stephen Wesley Phillips — identified as “a controlling force” in the company SWP Omnimedia, Inc. — is selling unauthorized “Dallas” merchandise via a number of domain names including ewingoil.org, ewingoil.net and ewingglobal.org.

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“Warner Bros. owns all rights including all names, characters, logos and related inidicia connected with the ‘Dallas’ series,” the lawsuit states.

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