Australian Olympic breakdancer Rachael 'Raygun' Gunn is demanding $11,000 in legal fees from the owner of a Sydney-based comedy club who planned to stage a show based on her.
Raygun the Musical was set to star Stephanie Broadbridge - but it was pulled at the last minute after promoter Anthony Skinner was sent a legal letter claiming the musical infringed on Gunn's intellectual property.
Australian correspondent Murray Olds says Skinner offered Gunn's legal team $550 in compensation - a bid the team swiftly rejected.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Murray olds is with US Australia correspondent Murray. Welcome to
the show. Bushfire in Victoria. This is spreading pretty fast.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Oh sure is Ryan? Yeah, very good afternoon. I think
I'm right in saying it's the first major bush fire
of the summer over here, burning in the Grampians National Park,
glorious part of the world for those who know it,
at northwestern Melbourne a couple of hours away. Started by
lightning strikes. Now early yesterday morning, so what we're talking
Eighteen hours ago authorities were saying seven o'clock on Wednesday morning,
(00:29):
five hundred hectares have been burned out. It's now over
five and a half thousand and seems to be growing
by the minute. It's out of control, hot, dry and
windy conditions and firefighters are heading there from other parts
of Victoria. Also talk of getting him from interstate. Nearly
fifty properties were destroyed in the same region February this year.
Locals hope it won't happen again, but it's not looking
(00:52):
that flash for the weekend, Ryan, more hot, dry and
windy conditions forecast and borrow and across Saturday and Sunday
in the run up to Christmas.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
How's dollar and the market looking after the finn reat
decision they've cut mate.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Suffice to say, I'm glad I'm not holidaying in the
United States this Christmas. Goodness me. It's the Australian dollars
that are two year low against the US currency, sixty
two and a quarter US cents right now. Last time
I remember paying any attention was about sixty six cents,
so and that was only a week or so ago,
so it's lost an awful lot of value. Plus the
(01:26):
Australian share markers ban hammert as Well lost nearly two
percent of lunchtime today. The big mining companies like BHP
four to, Skew, Riot ten to all got blasted. So
to the big banks. The A and Z lost nearly
three percent, the Commonwealth Bank in Westpac down two point three,
NAB two point one. And why, as you say, the
markets have factored in just two cuts to the official
(01:48):
US interest rates next year they were tipping four So
I mean, smarter minds that mine might have to work
this stuff out. But suffice to say, there's a lot
of unhappiness. They already got to cut twice and not
four times, which is why the poor al Australian South
Pacific PESO is getting smashed.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Hey, what about speaking of getting smashed, someone is in
trouble for mimicking or ripping off Raygun. What's going on?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Well, Rachel Raygun Gun. Of course Australia is infamous or famous,
you know. I thought, Look, Raygun made the Olympic team
and ninety nine point nine nine percent of us will
never do that. So four marks to her for doing that.
But boy her boyce, he's made a bit of a
mess of thing. Since then, there's a stand up comedian
(02:35):
in Sydney. I must say I'm not familiar with the
work of Steph Broadbridge, but she came out and said
she was going to produce ray Gun the Musical and
do a few moves at a stand up comedy club
in Sydney, pull a few moves out of the ray
Gun handbook and put this on stage with music. Well,
Raygun's lawyers and Reagun herself apparently not very happy. They
(02:57):
sent a seasoned this letter to the owner of the nightclub.
They wanted to charge the owner ten thousand dollars for
sanctioning a musical that would copy some of her Olympic
moves in Paris. Raygun's lawyers said, listen, the proposed sketch
would infringe her intellectual property. The owners came back and said, well, listen,
(03:18):
we've sold fifty tickets. We'll give you five hundred bucks
and you can bug her off. Steph Broadbridge, the comedian,
said that the lawyers were very worried about damaging Raygun's brand,
and then Steph says, well, look she doesn't really need
me to do that, so at this stage it's lawyers
at twenty paces. They want ten k. The nightclub owners
(03:38):
offered five hundred and poor old Rayguns getting smashed on
social media.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
As you say, I think she did enough damage to
her own brand, Murray Murray, Thank you for that. Mariyold's
Australia correspondent. For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive listen
live to news talks.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio
Murray olds is with US Australia correspondent Murray. Welcome to
the show. Bushfire in Victoria. This is spreading pretty fast.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Oh sure is Ryan? Yeah, very good afternoon. I think
I'm right in saying it's the first major bush fire
of the summer over here, burning in the Grampians National Park,
glorious part of the world for those who know it,
at northwestern Melbourne a couple of hours away. Started by
lightning strikes. Now early yesterday morning, so what we're talking
Eighteen hours ago authorities were saying seven o'clock on Wednesday morning,
(00:29):
five hundred hectares have been burned out. It's now over
five and a half thousand and seems to be growing
by the minute. It's out of control, hot, dry and
windy conditions and firefighters are heading there from other parts
of Victoria. Also talk of getting him from interstate. Nearly
fifty properties were destroyed in the same region February this year.
Locals hope it won't happen again, but it's not looking
(00:52):
that flash for the weekend, Ryan, more hot, dry and
windy conditions forecast and borrow and across Saturday and Sunday
in the run up to Christmas.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
How's dollar and the market looking after the finn reat
decision they've cut mate.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Suffice to say, I'm glad I'm not holidaying in the
United States this Christmas. Goodness me. It's the Australian dollars
that are two year low against the US currency, sixty
two and a quarter US cents right now. Last time
I remember paying any attention was about sixty six cents,
so and that was only a week or so ago,
so it's lost an awful lot of value. Plus the
(01:26):
Australian share markers ban hammert as Well lost nearly two
percent of lunchtime today. The big mining companies like BHP
four to, Skew, Riot ten to all got blasted. So
to the big banks. The A and Z lost nearly
three percent, the Commonwealth Bank in Westpac down two point three,
NAB two point one. And why, as you say, the
markets have factored in just two cuts to the official
(01:48):
US interest rates next year they were tipping four So
I mean, smarter minds that mine might have to work
this stuff out. But suffice to say, there's a lot
of unhappiness. They already got to cut twice and not
four times, which is why the poor al Australian South
Pacific PESO is getting smashed.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Hey, what about speaking of getting smashed, someone is in
trouble for mimicking or ripping off Raygun. What's going on?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Well, Rachel Raygun Gun. Of course Australia is infamous or famous,
you know. I thought, Look, Raygun made the Olympic team
and ninety nine point nine nine percent of us will
never do that. So four marks to her for doing that.
But boy her boyce, he's made a bit of a
mess of thing. Since then, there's a stand up comedian
(02:35):
in Sydney. I must say I'm not familiar with the
work of Steph Broadbridge, but she came out and said
she was going to produce ray Gun the Musical and
do a few moves at a stand up comedy club
in Sydney, pull a few moves out of the ray
Gun handbook and put this on stage with music. Well,
Raygun's lawyers and Reagun herself apparently not very happy. They
(02:57):
sent a seasoned this letter to the owner of the nightclub.
They wanted to charge the owner ten thousand dollars for
sanctioning a musical that would copy some of her Olympic
moves in Paris. Raygun's lawyers said, listen, the proposed sketch
would infringe her intellectual property. The owners came back and said, well, listen,
(03:18):
we've sold fifty tickets. We'll give you five hundred bucks
and you can bug her off. Steph Broadbridge, the comedian,
said that the lawyers were very worried about damaging Raygun's brand,
and then Steph says, well, look she doesn't really need
me to do that, so at this stage it's lawyers
at twenty paces. They want ten k. The nightclub owners
(03:38):
offered five hundred and poor old Rayguns getting smashed on
social media.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
As you say, I think she did enough damage to
her own brand, Murray Murray, Thank you for that. Mariyold's
Australia correspondent. For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive listen
live to news talks.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio
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