Yahoo! settles yodeler claim over trademark holler



Wylie Gustafson may have a million-dollar warble.

Gustafson came to an out-of-court settlement Monday in a $5-million claim against Internet goliath Yahoo! Inc. over utilization of his warble in radio and TV promotions.

The terms of the settlement were not discharged.

Gustafson says Yahoo! contracted him in 1996 to record his vigorous sob for the Internet gateway's first TV promotion. He got about $900 for the activity.

He says the comprehension was that his execution was for that promotion as it were. Be that as it may, Yahoo! utilized it as its mark in thousands more advertisements.

Yahoo! Wouldn't remark on the settlement, yet it says it will keep on using Gustafson's warble in its promoting efforts.

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