Zappa's widow sues festival over use of his image
The future of a festival in honour of Frank Zappa is under threat chase demands by his widow for money for the right to purpose his name or his trademark moustache.Gail Zappa is suing the organisers of the open Zappanale in the east German greenwich Village of Bad Doberan, claiming they must pay £200,000 to utilisation her husband's name or change the deed of conveyance of the annual festival.Gail Zappa, wHO founded the Zappa Kin Reliance in 2002, wants a say as to which cover-bands should play at the event. She has besides demanded that the logotype - his trademark moustache and goatee - be scrapped, claiming she owns the sole rights to habit it, and that a statue of Zappa in the village be removed.
The Zappanale started in 1990 after Bad Doberan emerged from the cold warfare and seized the chance to celebrate a musician whose vanguard records had been banned under the communist government. The festival attracts fans from around the world and has grown to turn the biggest solemnization of Zappa's music.The organisers took out a patent on the name nearly 20 eld ago. "It's our persuasion that we possess the rights to the name," said Thomas Dippel, the united States President of the society that runs the festival.He said the festival, which should fete its 19th year in Aug, did non aim to make a profit and was £long hundred,000 in debt.Fans of Zappa, world Health Organization died in 1993, have posted an internet prayer, in which 2,500 signatories are career on the Zappa Family Trust to withdraw its suit.A Düsseldorf court is expected to resolve on the case inside the next few months.
