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You Can’t Be A Little Bit Pregnant And You Can’t Be A Little Bit Exclusive
OK! Sues British Tab Over The Jamie-Lynn Story

For a sixteen year-old, the fun part of having a baby is being pregnant. After that, things start to get messy. And stinky. And totally no fun on a Friday night.

Similarly, the fun part of Jamie Lynn Spears getting pregnant for OK! magazine was running the exclusive. And let’s be real, magazines that judged Lynne Spears for selling the story to them were just bitter that they didn’t have the scoop. Us Weekly, we’re looking at you.

Anyway, when Heat, a British tabloid ran the quotes from the original interview as an exclusive without crediting OK!, OK! was not okay with it. (See what we did there?)

Now OK! is suing Heat over copyright infringement, which is sort of like the first birthday party equivalent of running an exclusive. A copyright suit isn’t as the exciting as the original story, but OK! could still end up with some nice presents.

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