Keith Urban Does Something Moderately Interesting

Brian Raftery | February 5, 2007 1:44 am
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The Smoking Gun has the details of a just-filed lawsuit against Keith Urban, a New Jersey oil painter whose keithurban.com website has spurred the similarly named country singer into legal action:

The site directs visitors to a gallery of paintings and offers a “very limited edition” of prints for sale. While the site does not list prices, a previous version of it offered $93.50 prints of hack paintings such as “Al Bundy for President” and “Missing Child,” which features a lone red sneaker and a switchblade lying in a gutter. The keithurban.com domain was first registered in May 1999 by the New Jersey Urban, 37, who did not respond to a TSG e-mail seeking comment about the federal complaint. The performer’s lawsuit, which does not specify monetary damages, seeks transfer of the keithurban.com address and an injunction barring the New Jersey Urban from operating a web site that suggests a relationship with the singer.

After checking out the painter’s site, we’re not sure if the singing Urban has much of a case: With its tackily designed splash page and garish Amazon and Disney ads, the number of people who mistake keithurban.com for the real deal has to be slim. Then again, we still know people who think Ryan Adams is a gaycation-loving Amy Sedaris fan.

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