Raygun demands $11,000 from comedy club owner who planned stage musical

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360527958/raygun-demands-11000-comedy-club-owner-who-planned-stage-musical

30 comments

  1. People need to stop giving her attention. Her intentions were not good and making her a joke only makes it worse for the people who should’ve been considered for the competition.

  2. Kayla Olaya and Nick Galvin:

    *Australian Olympic breakdancer Rachael “Raygun” Gunn is demanding A$10,000 (NZ$11,000) in legal fees from the owner of a small Sydney comedy club that had planned to stage a show called Raygun The Musical.*

    *The musical, written by comedian Stephanie Broadbridge and slated for December 7, was canned at the last minute after promoter Anthony Skinner was hit with a legal letter claiming the show infringed Gunn’s intellectual property.*

    *[…] The letter [below] demanding the five-figure sum was accompanied by an email demanding an “urgent response” from 17 Degrees lawyer Samantha Ludemann, who signed off the message, “Warm regards, Samantha”.*

    *The letter also claims Gunn’s intellectual property includes her “story, personal history, Olympic videos and choreography”.*

    *In an earlier message, Gunn’s lawyers said the dancer’s much-derided routine was “the culmination of over 10 years of training”.*

    *“You will recognise this Olympic-level choreography is a complex sequence of moves and techniques of which our client is the creator and author,” it continued.*

    *Judges at this year’s Paris Olympics awarded 37-year-old Gunn’s routine zero points.*

    *However, it appears Gunn’s claims may not rest on particularly solid legal ground. In an article in Law Society Journal this week, authors Sarah Hook, Marie Hadley and Vicki Huang said it was unlikely Gunn would be “able to enforce intellectual property over her name, her persona, and her dance moves”.*

  4. Wow what a shitty person. She deserved all the bad publicity.

  5. Olympic-level choreography is a complex sequence of moves ….. there is nothing even remotely close to that from her performance.

  6. She’s a fucking bitch.

    The proceeds from the musical were going to go to a women’s shelter, now she demands the comedy company pay her $10K. What a shit woman.

  7. Yeah no hahahaha learn to just accept you are a joke

  8. She needs to own the shit show instead of being a dick about it.

  9. Not surprised at all that she’s a shit person. Probably took the Olympic spot from someone far more deserving too.

  10. Fuck, is her whole existence just one long grift and operation in the extrication of money from others?

  11. Yeah like they say in Oz, this Sheila is a shitcunt

  14. This is the dumbest exploitation of anything I’ve ever seen…

  15. Could’ve leaned into it and been fine but nah, let’s be litigious and shitty

  16. May The Streisand Effect swamp Ray Gun with endless mockery.

  17. Then Australia should demand back the money it took to send her to the Olympics

  19. I cannot begin to describe how much I can’t stand this disgusting scammer and how she’s sleazed, fraudulently rep’s herself and BS’d her way into the mainstream. She’s a liar, a scammer, a “questionable “ certification of an “academic” and now she’s getting treated like fucking royalty. I mean c’mon “Gender” studies! Really. I guess you can pass exams by pointing to shit and drawing a few pictures. She embarrassed and dragged down the integrity of the entire Australian Dancing community. Why don’t Australians step up and tell her to $&#@ off. I’m surrounded by idiots I swear.
    I guess this is what married white academics with no kids get Vs what everyone else gets because I know a lot of Uni people and none of them would have ever pulled that shit. I will remain mortified and no longer will support the Olympics.

  21. She really should have just leaned into it. She could be doing Outback Steakhouse commercials and shit making easy money haha

  22. Instead of riding the wave, she’s battling the riptide

  23. She could have treated this like an impromptu roast, attended this event, started the standing ovation, and owned social media for a few days in a positive light. But she didn’t.

  24. The real move would have been for her to show up to this unannounced, charge $10 for a picture with people then donate that to the charity. She’s a laughing stock. May as well embrace it and make something good come from it

  26. I laughed so hard at the lawyers statement “You will recognise this Olympic-level choreography is a complex sequence of moves and techniques of which our client is the creator and author,“ Olympic level??? Hahahahhaha your client is literally the reason it’s not coming back…

  27. For a country founded by criminals, Australia is so weak. We literally have Dr. Phil live by Adam Ray here, but this got shut down there. Wild.

  28. Didn’t she tank breakdancing’s future in the Olympics? It’s obvious she had no right to be there. The memes are still fun though.

  29. I’m all for the club owner giving Raygun the same amount as she gave in effort during her Olympics routine, which is $0.00.

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