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Wylie Gustafson is really Yahooing over Yahoo Settlement

[CNN is reporting.] Wylie Gustafson, singer of Yahoo the internet portal's trademark yodel, finally settles with Yahoo for undisclosed sum, but he says "...it will keep his horses fed for the winter with a little left over."

VO people imagine: You're asked to VO a little yodel for an unknown start-up company who wants a non-union VO artist to jazz up their commercial. Pay $590 for a one time use. Not bad by most standards today, but when Wylie Gustafson heard his distinct yodel on Super Bowl and repeated in many commerials for internet giant Yahoo, Wylie wasn't ah-yahoo-ing. So Wylie filed suit in federal court against Yahoo and starteding talking with every radio and television station in the country. Well, finally T. Semel, Yahoo's Chmn./CEO heard about the news and ordered a quick settlement. Nice to see a company do the right thing. Bad it had to take a lawsuit to get them to settle.

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