Gaga Over Goo Goo

Lady Gaga has won an injunction to stop the makers of an online children’s game from promoting an animated character called Lady Goo Goo.

She hired top legal firm Mishcon de Reya, which represented the Princess of Wales in her divorce from Prince Charles, to prevent British company Mind Candy from promoting, advertising, selling, distributing or otherwise making available to the public any work involving Lady Goo Goo.

Mind Candy is behind the Moshi Monsters site, which allows children to adopt a virtual pet monster.

Its characters include Lady Goo Goo, a sunglasses-wearing blonde baby who appears in “The Moshi Dance,” a video that became an online hit after it was posted on YouTube in the summer.

Mind Candy founder Michael Acton Smith said the ruling was “a huge disappointment.”

“It was all done in the name of fun, and we would have thought that Lady Gaga could have seen the humour behind this parody,” he said.

His company planned to release the “The Moshi Dance” as a single, but on Oct. 14 the High Court in London put a stop to the idea.

Oliver Smith, an intellectual property lawyer with Keystone Law, told the Daily Mail the judgment would likely impact other musical spoofs and tribute acts.

“English trademark law allows parody songs and tribute bands, but not if the names are too similar and one takes unfair advantage of the other’s goodwill,” he explained.

Lady Gaga was just added to the lineup for the “2011 MTV EMAs” in Belfast Nov. 6.

The lineup, which is split between the city’s Odyssey Arena, Ulster Hall and City Hall, already has Bruno Mars, Coldplay, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Snow Patrol, Jessie J and Jason Derulo.