Simon Cowell Photos Land 'Inquisitr' in Legal Limbo

Well, the evil American Idol judge is at it again, with his crack legal team causing trouble for some blog that, frankly, doesn't even matter in the whole scheme of things. To add some context to the story, the whole shebang went down earlier this week when a blog out of Sydney, Australia, called The Inquisitr received a nasty-looking legal notice from someone purporting to be representatives of Simon Cowell.

The notice sent from the L.A. law firm of Lavely & Singer alleged that the blog down under violated "Cowell's rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights" by publishing some photos taken of Cowell while he was sunning at his private residence in Barbados. Wow. Whatever. Cowell has been violating MY rights (and the rights of others like the late Paula Goodspeed) for years on American Idol and I'm sure he does the same thing overseas on his other show The X-Factor. But back to the real question: What do the European Convention on Human Rights have to do with an Australian blog? More importantly, is Australia part of Europe? If so, I'd better check up on my geography.

Sadly, the blog backed down and pulled the incriminating photos. Obviously the photos were meant to poke fun at Cowell. Also, the last time I checked Simon Cowell wasn't a public figure and so I have a hard time believing such a frivolous lawsuit would have stood up in any court, hence the reason Simon's crack legal team pulled a rabbit out of their hats like claiming the picture violated European human rights law, among other "violations" the legal eagles claimed.

Granted, the Aussie blog may have had some incorrect details, such as noting that the pics were taken at a hotel, when in fact they were shot at Cowell's private residence in Barbados. Small details, you know. But I might add that the legal notice the attorneys sent had several typos (Ha!) and so obviously both parties need better editors. And the blog did take things one step further by publishing the legal notice even though it's copyrighted. Oops! Not a smart move there!!

Even so, the notice is one of the most hilarious news items I've read in quite some time. I'm sure Cowell didn't take too kindly to the violation of his privacy, but he totally violated my personal-private space when I read last week that British schoolchildren in a survey had named Cowell more famous than God or The Queen. I think all of this God-talk has gone to Cowell's head. That and Cowell was probably already on edge since some other evil-doers planted tracking devices on his James Bond-wannabe car several weeks ago while he tooled around London.