{"id":256406,"date":"2013-05-08T02:20:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T07:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=256406"},"modified":"2013-05-09T02:16:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T07:16:39","slug":"dr-phil-claims-copyright-infringement-in-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=256406","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Phil Claims Copyright Infringement in Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/05\/Doctor-Phil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/05\/Doctor-Phil-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Doctor Phil\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-256407\" \/><\/a>TEXARKANA (AP) \u2014 A production company owned by television psychologist Dr. Phil has filed a federal lawsuit in Texas claiming improper use of an interview he conducted with the man who perpetrated a hoax on former Notre Dame football star Manti Te&#8217;o. <\/p>\n<p>Texas-based Peteski Productions is claiming in the suit filed Monday that Gawker Media committed copyright infringement by airing portions of Phil McGraw&#8217;s interview with Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. The 22-year-old Tuiasosopo has said he created the online persona of Lennay Kekua, a nonexistent woman whom Te&#8217;o said he fell in love with despite never meeting her in person. <\/p>\n<p>The suit claims one of Gawker&#8217;s properties, the sports blog Deadspin, aired part of the interview before a February broadcast of &#8220;Dr. Phil.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEXARKANA (AP) \u2014 A production company owned by television psychologist Dr. Phil has filed a federal lawsuit in Texas claiming improper use of an interview he conducted with the man who perpetrated a hoax on former Notre Dame football star Manti Te&#8217;o. Texas-based Peteski Productions is claiming in the suit filed Monday that Gawker Media &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=256406\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dr. Phil Claims Copyright Infringement in Lawsuit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 21:27:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256406"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256631,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256406\/revisions\/256631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}