Legal Opinion
Strange Music, Inc. v. Strange Music, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 1, 2004No. 04 Civ. 02915(PKC)PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
CASTEL, District Judge.
This is an action alleging infringement of a common law trademark in the name “Strange Music”. The plaintiff Peter Grant is a composer and performer of a genre known as “new music”. He and his company Strange Music, Inc., who will be referred to throughout as “sTRANGEmU-SIC”, 1 allege that a record label featuring hip-hop artists is improperly using the name “Strange Music”. More specifically, they allege that the owners and distributors of Strange Music, Inc. (“STRANGE MUSIC”) including Travis O’Guin, Aaron D. Yates, d/b/a TECH N9NE (“Yates” and/or…
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