Meat Loaf suing Meat Loaf impersonator
Meat Loaf suing Meat Loaf impersonator. Try to say that 5 times fast.
The rocker with the powerhouse voice and funny name feels that an impersonator is misleading fans over the Internet and is fighting back by filing a lawsuit.
Meat Loaf has accused Dean Torkington of causing brand name confusion by registering his act ” To Hell and Back: A Tribute to Meat Loaf ” under the web domain meatLoaf.org.
Meat Loaf’s official website is meatloaf.net. He didn’t get the .com because that was already taken. Meat Loaf’s team believes the move in securing the .org website is in “bad faith” and wants $100,000 in damages.
On the impersonator’s website, it looks pretty clear that you not visiting the original site… if you read it. On all of the pages I visited, in the lower right hand corner displayed fairly prominently are the words, “The UK’s #1 Tribute to Meat Loaf and the songs of Jim Steinman” So unless you’re a complete moron, you would know that it is not the original web site of the performer. The lettering and fonts though on both sites, looks strikingly similar.
Still, we all know that many people do not read everything on a site so it can be construed as confusing and Meat Loaf has every right to protect his property. Sometimes though celebrities can and do get along with their impersonators. Take the example of Frank Marino, a fantastic long time Vegas showman who has impersonated Joan Rivers, past and present throughout the years.
Frank Marino and Joan Rivers did have a rocky relationship years ago . Yes, he’s been impersonating her for decades. She even sued the female impersonator for $5 million dollars in the 90’s but they patched things up. The relationship between Rivers and her impersonator, Marino has actually morphed into a friendly type of relationship. So friendly that Rivers recently had Marino on her Fashion Police show in May and touted that appearance on Facebook.
By Meat Loaf suing Meat Loaf impersonator, it doesn’t appear that the two Meat Loaf’s get along. At all!
TMZ reported that according to the documents filed at the Los Angeles Country Superior Court, Meat Loaf wants a court injunction to shut down the site and hand over ownership of the domain under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) plus $100,000 in damages.
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