Prince Attacks His Own Fans, with Lawyers

Allie @ Gone Hollywood | Tuesday, November 6, 2007

In an extraordinary, but not unfamiliar move, rock legend Prince is using an army of lawyers to launch attacks on his own fans.

Prince Attacks His Own Fans, with Lawyers - PIC

[Let's see how he likes that picture]

Several of the largest web communities dedicated to the artist have received notices to cease and desist all use of photographs, images, lyrics, album covers and anything linked to Prince’s likeness.

It is our opinion that these threats are not made in an attempt to enforce valid copyright as Prince alleges in his threats, rather we believe they are attempts to stifle all critical commentary about Prince. We strongly believe that such actions are in violation of the freedom of speech and should not be allowed. Prince claims that fansites are not allowed to present any artwork with Prince’s likeness, to the extreme that he has demanded removal of fan’s own photographs of their Prince inspired tattoos and their vehicles displaying Prince inspired license plates.

Prince’s representatives have requested that the fansites provide them with “substantive details of the means by which you [the fansites] propose to compensate our clients [Paisley Park Enterprises, NPG Records and Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG)] for damages…”

The owners of the three largest fansites involved:

www.housequake.com

www.princefams.com

www.prince.org

source: [prince fans united]

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