September 20, 2012

JERUSALEM (JTA) – DC Comics has filed a lawsuit against a Jerusalem shop for selling unlicensed Batman kipot, a week after a similar lawsuit was filed over Spiderman kipot.

The lawsuit reported Thursday in Israeli media comes a week after Avi Binyamin, who owns the small Kippa Man store on Ben-Yehuda Street in downtown Jerusalem, was notified that Marvel Comics is suing him for selling Spider-Man kipot.

“They make them in China, I just bring them,” Binyamin told the Jerusalem Post after the Marvel Comics lawsuit, adding that “There are 20 stores on this street, they all sell the same thing.”

The Israeli law firm of Ivtsan, Netzer, Wolecki & Co. of Tel Aviv is handling both cases. Both of the lawsuits filed in the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court are asking for about $25,700 in damages.

Numerous shops along Ben-Yehuda sell merchandise featuring Batman and Spider-Man and other characters, as well as college mascots and professional sports teams.
 

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