Black Flag perustajalta päivitys oikeusjuttua koskien

Black Flag perustajajäsen ja kitaristi Greg Ginn on julkaissut virallisen viestin liittyen aiemmin uutisoituun oikeusjuttuun. Viestissään mies perustelee syitä oikeusjuttuun Flagin jäseniä sekä Henry Rollinsia vastaan. Lue lisää nähdäksesi viestin.

”The dispute over Black Flag is not motivated by an effort to stop anyone from covering Black Flag songs. Quite to the contrary. this dispute began when Henry Garfield (Rollins) and Keith Morris made an effort to hijack the name — and the logo — for their own use.

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”Behind everyone’s back, in September 2012, Garfield and Morris filed fraudulent trademark applications in which they are claiming to own the name and the logo. Had we not taken action, this pair could have snuck these false applications through the Trademark Office, enabling them to stop Black Flag from playing and gaining exclusive use of the name and logo for themselves. We are also trying to stop Morris and the others in his band from using the name and the logo in a misleading way, and from selling bootleg items.”