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Eagles End Lawsuit Against Bird Protectors
06/12/2001 3:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Gary Graff
(6/12/01, 3 p.m. ET) -- After three years of legal communiques, the Eagles have dropped a trademark-infringement lawsuit against the nonprofit American Eagle Foundation, formerly known as the National Foundation To Protect America's Eagles--the birds, of course, not the band.
The Eagles had objected to the organization's website (eagles.org) and to its telephone number (1-800-2-EAGLES), claiming that both infringed on trademarks established by the band's corporate entities, American Eagle Inc. and Eagles Record Co.
The trial was set to begin Monday (June 11) in Los Angeles, but due to the group's European tour, manager Irving Azoff and band principals Don Henley and Glenn Frey were not available to testify and wouldn't be available in the near future, thus compromising the band's ability to plead its case.
-- Gary Graff, Detroit
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