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Re: Ozzy Osbourne Suing Tony Iommi For Black Sabbath Name
Lawyers representing Ozzy Osbourne have filed a lawsuit with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office against the heavy metal icon’s Black Sabbath bandmate, Tony Iommi, claiming the man responsible for some of the genre’s most memorable riffs illegally assumed sole ownership of the Black Sabbath name.
According to the New York Post, Osbourne’s suit seeks a 50 percent stake in the “Black Sabbath” trademark. Furthermore, the filing claims Osbourne is entitled to a portion of the profits Iommi has generated through use of the band name, and suggests it was Osbourne’s “signature lead vocals” that helped propel the band’s “extraordinary success.” The suit also points out that Sabbath’s popularity took a nosedive during Ozzy’s absence during 1980 and 1996, when former Rainbow vocalist Ronnie James Dio took over behind the mike stand.
The suit follows one filed by Iommi in December 2008 against Live Nation. In that filing, Iommi claims the concert giant sold merchandise bearing the band’s logo, despite the 2006 expiration of a merchandising deal, reportedly worth nearly $80 million. Soon after that agreement concluded, Iommi reclaimed the band’s trademark.
Iommi’s suit argues Live Nation continued to sell more than 100 items of merchandise featuring the band’s likeness, name and logo, despite the receipt of cease-and-desist orders from the guitarist’s camp. Iommi’s suit seeks damages in the amount of three times the profits from the merchandise sales, plus a halt to the Black Sabbath product sales.
In a recent interview with Decibel magazine, both Iommi and bassist Geezer Butler said that working with Dio was actually much easier than working with Ozzy. “Ronnie’s a songwriter in his own right — he’s got tons of ideas,” Butler said. “Whereas Ozzy … in the old days, he’d come up with a vocal line and I’d write the lyrics. Ronnie is 100 percent involved in both the musical side and the vocal side, and he writes his own lyrics as well.”
Source: http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/i … bath-name/
- mickronson
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Re: Ozzy Osbourne Suing Tony Iommi For Black Sabbath Name
Was it Ozzy filing, or was it Sharon....
Re: Ozzy Osbourne Suing Tony Iommi For Black Sabbath Name
Was it Ozzy filing, or was it Sharon....
Exactly - I would say Sharon!
A little of topic but.... from what I can tell Perla seems to try and model herself on Sharon. She wants to be a celebrity in her own right like Sharon and also pushes Slash to do all sorts of shit just like Sharon does to Ozzy.
Re: Ozzy Osbourne Suing Tony Iommi For Black Sabbath Name
Sharon must be broke.
Like James said, 25 years too late. I actually agree with them. Ozzy made Sabbath, Sabbath. Don't believe me? Well, just look at the track record. Ozzy moves on to a very successful solo career, as Sabbath faded into oblivion.
- metallex78
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Re: Ozzy Osbourne Suing Tony Iommi For Black Sabbath Name
Shame this has come about, as Ozzy seemed to be cool with the Sabbath guys again, and even wished them well with the Heaven and Hell line up.
I don't think this will encourage any future collaborations.
Re: Ozzy Osbourne Suing Tony Iommi For Black Sabbath Name
Shame this has come about, as Ozzy seemed to be cool with the Sabbath guys again, and even wished them well with the Heaven and Hell line up.
I don't think this will encourage any future collaborations.
Probably because they're done with that drama and dealing with Sharon, dah err, I mean Ozzy.
Sabbath, without Ozzy, know they can tour with Dio as Heaven and Hell and pretty much sell the amount of albums they want, and see the amount of fans they want to.
They aren't looking for mega fame anymore anyways.
So she turns around and sues as a way to say "not without me your not".
