Lady Gaga Not Gaga Over Breast Milk Ice Cream

Icecreamists, which is located in central London, quickly sold out of its first batch of Baby Gaga ice cream after the flavor went on sale Feb. 25.

According to NPR.org, as many as 15 women sold their breast milk to use as an ingredient in the ice cream, which is flavored with vanilla and lemon zest. A serving of Baby Gaga is priced at 14 pounds ($22.68).

Lady Gaga wants the shop to stop selling the ice cream, which she described as “nausea-inducing,” according to the Guardian. In a cease-and-desist notice the singer accused the ice cream shop of making money off of her name.

“She claims we have ‘ridden the coattails’ of her reputation,” Icecreamists owner Matt O’Connor told the Guardian. “As someone who has … recycled on an industrial scale the entire back catalogue of pop culture to create her look, music and videos, she might want to reconsider this allegation.

“How can she possibly claim ownership of the word ‘gaga’ which since the dawn of time has been one of the first discernable phrases to come from a baby’s mouth?”

The ice cream had already been temporarily taken off the menu at Icecreamists thanks to the Westminster council’s food standards department. The council confiscated the ice cream to test if it met hygiene standards. The council said “selling foodstuffs made from another person’s bodily fluids can lead to viruses being passed on and, in this case, potentially hepatitis,” according to the Guardian.

In other Lady Gaga news, the singer is also getting some attention for her uber-strict photo release contract. Washington, D.C., website TBD.com thought Gaga’s demands were so ridiculous that the site published the release form given to their photographer Jay Westcott for the Feb. 24 show at Verizon Center.

One stipulation in particular stuck out to Westcott. According to the form, photographers that take photos at Lady Gaga concerts don’t own the copyright to the pictures – she does.

The story by TBD.com noted that this is a big deal because “copyright exists ‘the moment’ a work ‘is created and fixed in a tangible form that it is perceptible either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.’ For photographers this means that either they, or their employers… own the copyright the moment they press their shutter button.”

According to TBD.com, the Beastie Boys and Foo Fighters have similar stipulations in their photo release contracts.

To read the full post on TBD.com, click here.

Click here to read the Guardian story.

Click here for the NPR.org story.