Eazy-E's Widow Sues Eazy-E's Son Over 'Ruthless'
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(Radio.com) Talk about Ruthless. The widow of N.W.A. rapper Eazy-E is suing Eazy's son and business partners for starting a company under the name Ruthless Records. Tomica Woods-Wright, has the rights to Compton Records, the label founded by N.W.A.'s Eric 'Eazy-E" Wright. He started the company in 1986 in Compton, California under the name Ruthless Records. That's why she has filed a trademark infringement suit against Arnold E. White (Bigg A) and Eric Darnel Wright, a.k.a. Lil Eazy-E (Eazy's son) for launching their own version of Ruthless Records, reports Billboard. The suit claims that the defendants used the Ruthless Records trademark and ran http://www.ruthlessrecordsinc.com even though their application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to trademark Ruthless Records was denied. The suit calls the actions, 'malicious, fraudulent, deliberate, and/or willful." In their defense, the new Ruthless says they have the right to use the name because the roots of the are in their president's blood. Read more here. Radio.com is an official news provider for antiMusic.com. |
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