US court backs family over Bob Marley shirts

2015/02/21 22:33:16 @Entertainment News Headlines — Yahoo! News

A US court has sided with Bob Marley & #039;s family, which sued a company that sold shirts depicting the reggae legend, in a case with potential ramifications for merchandise of other deceased stars. The estate of the Jamaican icon had filed a suit after low-cost T-shirts -- featuring a photo of a speaking Marley next to the yellow, green and red colors associated with his Rastafarian faith -- went on sale at Walmart, Target and other major US retailers. A jury in the western state of Nevada in 2011 awarded more than $2 million in damages and legal fees to firms owned by Marley & #039;s children that said they had lost an order to sell T-shirts at Walmart as the unauthorized rival was distributing a similar product. The defendants lodged an appeal that was rejected Friday by a federal court, which agreed that the non-family companies violated the 1946 Lanham Act, a key US law on copyright infringement.
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