Must Read! Slipknot Files Big Lawsuit | By Samantha Whidden, Suggest | Famed heavy metal rock band Slipknot has filed a lawsuit against the owners of the website Slipknot.com. According to Metal Injection, the owners have owned the website since 2001. The band has to use the domain “Slipknot1.com” instead.
“The domain name was registered in an effort to profit off of plaintiff’s goodwill and to trick unsuspecting visitors,” the band’s complaint reads. “Under the impression they are visiting a website owned, operated or affiliated with plaintiff – into clicking on web searches and other sponsored links.”
The complaint also stated that the domain could continue to confuse Slipknot fans. “A fan of plaintiff or someone who otherwise wanted to purchase authorized Slipknot merchandise would undoubtedly visit the slipknot.com website,” the complaint continues. “Assuming it belonged to plaintiff and then purchase the Slipknot merchandise linked to on the site, causing damages to plaintiff.”
Slipknot Faces Some Obstacles in the Web Domain Lawsuit
Slipknot has filed the lawsuit under the federal Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act and trademark infringement. However, the band is facing some legal hurdles because the registrant’s address is in the Cayman Islands.
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Country Singer Sued for ‘Severe’ Injuries After Concert Giveaway Gone Wrong
By Sheli Frank, Parade
For country music stars, singing about cold beer is practically part of the job description. But a lawsuit filed against one of the genre’s rising stars is claiming that he took that theme too far, hurling full beer cans into the audience at a 2022 festival and causing “severe” harm to a fan, American Songwriter reports.
Jameson Rodgers, 38, the multi-platinum singer-songwriter behind massive No. 1 hits like “Some Girls” and the Luke Combs duet, “Cold Beer Calling My Name”, took to the stage at the Barefoot Country Music Festival in Wildwood in June 2022 with cold cans of Miller Light in hand. What could have been a fun giveaway to hype up the crowd, however, quickly turned into an incident now at the center of a complex legal battle involving the artist, his record label, and even the beer company itself.
Billboard reports that according to the lawsuit filed in May 2024, fan Samantha Haws alleges that Rodgers “threw full, unopened cans of Miller Lite beer from the stage into the crowded audience.” One of the cans, she claims, struck her “violently and without warning in the head and facial area,” resulting in “severe, painful and permanent bodily injuries”.
The case took another turn on Wednesday when a New Jersey appeals court ruled that Rodgers’ label, Sony Music, must remain a defendant. Sony had argued it wasn’t based in New Jersey and didn’t operate the festival. However, the court upheld a lower judge’s finding that Rodgers could have been performing as Sony’s “agent,” which could put the company on the hook for his alleged actions. Molson Coors d/b/a Miller Brewing Company, the maker of Miller Lite, is also named as a defendant.
Performers throwing objects at the crowd – and fans throwing objects at performers – has become a dangerous and widely reported problem, . . .
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