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"  Unlike today&amp;#039;s celebrity chefs, who hawk everything from Diet Coke (Tom Colicchio) to Victoza (Paula Deen&amp;#039;s recent diabetic medicine), Julia Child was vehemently against paid endorsements. That&amp;#039;s why Julia Child&amp;#039;s family is outraged that her likeness was used in a Thermador marketing campaign. Less than a month after what would have been Child&amp;#039;s 100th birthday, BSH Home Appliances, which owns the brand Thermador, filed a lawsuit against The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and Culinary Arts, hoping a federal judge could decide if the company had the rights to use Julia Child&amp;#039;s image in its advertising. According to the Washington Post, the foundation countersued, filing not one but two lawsuits against BSH \u2014 one in state court in Santa Barbara, California, and the other in federal court in Los Angeles. More From Delish: Julia Child at 100: Celebrating Her Most Memorable Moments The foundation claims that BSH is using Child&amp;#039;s name and image without permission and they want it to stop \u2014 immediately. BSH believes that they are merely stating what is true: Child used their appliances in both her home and on her studio set for The French Chef. Evidence of that is in the Smithsonian, where Child&amp;#039;s Cambridge kitchen is housed, including a Thermador oven. Currently Thermador features the famed chef in print efforts and social media. In magazines the chef&amp;#039;s image is used with the tagline, &amp;quot;An American Icon and Her American Icons.&amp;quot; BSH said its advertising efforts featuring the chef, &amp;quot;reflect on the long history, significance and influence of Thermador products on American society and culture, and Ms. Child&amp;#039;s documented and well-known use of those products. More From Delish: Recipes from Julie &amp;amp;amp; Julia The foundation supports its argument by reiterating that Julia Child focused on serving the public, broadcasting her programs on PBS, a nonprofit television network. Todd Schulkin, the foundation&amp;#039;s intellectual property manager, told the Los Angeles Times, &amp;quot;The foundation feels really strongly about continuing to conduct itself as Julia would have. And she was adamant that she not personally endorse products or brands.&amp;quot; It was widely reported that Child once sued a restaurant that had publicly announced Child claimed it was her favorite. For the moment, Thermador has taken down the materials from its website, but the suit filing last week in Boston made it clear that Thermador is not planning on backing down permanently. Who&amp;#039;s side are you on? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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