Sunday, October 13, 2013

Black Flag's Gregg Ginn Loses Lawsuit against former bandmates

According to SPIN.com, Gregg Ginn has pretty much lost his lawsuit against the recently formed FLAG. FLAG has been touring and playing shows as a spinoff band of Black Flag. Gregg Ginn Claims that there is only "one Black Flag" and that his former bandmates should not be using Black Flag to promote their new band, such as the iconic Black Flag logo (seen below). Ginn also accused former band mates Henry Rollins and Keith Morris of abusing the bands legacy and trying to secure the rights to the band by selling bootleg records and T-shirts.
However, a court judge ruled, earlier this week, that Ginn's SST records has no rights to Black Flag's copyright, also that Ginn has no special rights to any of the trademarks. The judge also determined that Henry Rollins never left the band since its original split in 1986. Hopefully, this will be the end of the battle so both these legends of punk rock can get back to playing music. 

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