Back story: www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=43738

In August, the Teen Revenue affiliate program filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Lupe Fuentes LLC, Evan Seinfeld and Webquest claiming its copyrights of Fuentes were misappropriated. Teen Revenue’s Paolo Cammarata said at the time that when he met Fuentes nearly four years ago, he coined her name and constructed the website littlelupe.com after entering into a deal with her. [The Fuentes people claim that deal was reneged on.]

According to Cammarata, when Seinfeld began managing and promoting Fuentes, he later registered the sites LupeFuentes.com and ILoveLupe.com, with the alleged intent “to misappropriate the fame and goodwill associated with the mark ‘Little Lupe.’”

According to Cammarat’s lawsuit, Seinfeld allegedly provided at least 50 stolen videos from Little Lupe.com with false copyright information to WebQuest, which copied, uploaded, then displayed and distributed the videos on ILoveLupe.com; and it was Chris Rogers formerly of Teen Revenue who was supposed to have tipped the hand by bragging on GFY.com that the new ILoveLupe.com site included her historical content.

Now we have a countersuit.

According to a story reported on www.xbiz.com, Lupe Fuentes LLC claims it’s the legal and rightful owner of the name “Little Lupe” despite the fact that Teen Revenue operators applied to register her name in July with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office.

Fuentes’ company is now asking a judge to award it actual and punitive damages, as well as injunctive relief that would cancel Teen Revenue’s “Little Lupe” trademark.

In the countersuit, filed at U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, Lupe Fuentes LLC said that Teen Revenue’s parent, Samson Investments, should forfeit the domain LittleLupe.com, claiming that what Teen Revenue has done is tantamount to a smear campaign with an attempt to cripple Fuentes’ relationship with online adult processors.

Fuentes also claims she decided to use the English translation of her life-long nickname, “Little Lupe,” as her stage name after being scouted by Teen Revenue’s Cammarata. Fuentes said she had used the nickname years ago, since when she was a child in Spain.

Fuentes also claims that the deal she had with Cammarata was limited, providing for 30 scenes, with a perpetual license to use the name “Little Lupe” exclusively for 18 months.

In January after the 18-month exclusivity period ended, Fuentes and Seinfeld formed Lupe Fuentes LLC, where she began producing content using the stage name “Lupe Fuentes.”

According to the story, her content later was posted to ILoveLupe.com and LupeFuentes.com, with Lupe Fuentes LLC partnering up with Webquest to promote and distribute the content.

The countersuit goes on to say that Fuentes’ company chose to use the stage name “Lupe Fuentes” to purposely disassociate itself from Teen Revenue’s licensed use of the mark ‘Little Lupe’ so as not to give the impression she was an underage performer and thus appeal to those with a particular preference for deviant sexual behavior.

Seinfeld in comments made to XBiz called Teen Revenue’s lawsuit underhanded, frivolous, desperate and far-reaching but added the floodgates are now open and that Cammarata underestimated the extent of Fuentes-Seinfeld’s legal resources.

Fuentes, according to the countersuit, was given access to the footage shot by Teen Revenue through an oral authorization set forth in its initial contract, but later Teen Revenue recanted the oral agreement.
Seinfeld said upon meeting Fuentes was also surprised to learn that LittleLupe.com was one of the top 3,000 sites on Alexa.

[According to Tuesday’s Alexa Traffic Ranking, LittleLupe.com is ranked 26,082 in the US while ILoveLupe.com is 26,942; meanwhile Adultfyi’s ranking is 8,815, which by Seinfeld’s starnge calculus, puts my site in the Top 1,000. Thank you, Evan.]

Seinfeld also estimated that in some of the site’s most prolific months, the Teen Revenue site generated in excess of $350,000 a month for Teen Revenue but that Fuentes was getting a lopsided deal compared to others in the business.

Seinfeld also said he’s put off by the fact that Teen Revenue operators applied to register her name in July with the patent office.

“What’s amazing is that their application was filed just prior to the [original suit] filed in August,” he said. “It’s just shitty.”