For six seasons, Better Call Saul has changed the crime drama of Breaking Bad by a successively more tragic legal entanglement. It is what has changed the drug dealer Walter White for Jimmy McGill (whom we knew until then as Saul Goodman), tracking how everything went wrong and ended up first helping the protagonist of Breaking Bad, and then having to change his life to escape the consequences of his crimes. A Better Call Saul has two episodes left to conclude to unanimous critical acclaim, but now Collider echoes an ironic turn of events. And it is that the producers of Better Call Saul They just got into a legal mess.
In the second episode of the last season, the marriage of Betsy and Craig Ketleman reappeared (Julie Ann Emery y Jeremy Shamos). We met them as embezzlers of their company’s money in the initial episodes of Better Call Saul, and now they’re back to scamming money through a fraudulent company, Sweet Liberty Tax Services. With it they offer help to clients who are unaware of the tax system, to take advantage and keep part of the income. The problem is that, beyond the AMC series, in real life there is a company called Liberty Tax. And, to make matters worse, their logo is a lot like the big inflatable statue of liberty the Kettlemans have in front of their office.
Hence, Liberty Tax, a US company that is also dedicated to tax advice (it is assumed that without robbing anyone) has decided to sue AMC Networks and Sony Pictures, architects of Better Call Saul. Liberty Tax denounces an alleged “intentional misuse” of your brand. He claims that the name ‘Sweet Liberty Tax Services’ is too similar to his, and that the statue of liberty is a clear reference to his own brand. “Of all the names they could have used for the business portrayed in the episode, they decided not to be original and copy the famous Liberty Tax trademarks, used for over 25 years, and mimic a real Liberty Tax location by simply adding the word ‘sweet’ in front of the brandreads the lawsuit.
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Unless an agreement is reached soon, the producers would have to go to court with Liberty Tax, resorting to a team of lawyers and replicating a plot that could well have appeared in Better Call Saul. The series, developed by Vince Gilligan y Peter Gouldright now represents a whole revaluation of the phenomenon Breaking Badwhich last week ended up exploding when two statues of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman were erected in the Albuquerque convention center, the city where the plot of both series takes place.
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