{"id":11744,"date":"2011-12-08T15:29:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T20:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11744"},"modified":"2011-12-08T15:29:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T20:29:48","slug":"bob-marley-heirs-sue-half-brother-over-name-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11744","title":{"rendered":"Bob Marley Heirs Sue Half Brother Over Name Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A feud has erupted within the first family of reggae, with the widow and nine children of <strong>Bob Marley<\/strong> suing his half brother to stop use of the Marley name to promote an annual Miami music festival and profit from other businesses in his native Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court contends the half brother, businessman <strong>Richard Booker<\/strong>, and several affiliated companies are violating copyright and trademark laws by using <strong>Marley\u2019s<\/strong> name, photographs, lyrics, symbols and other intellectual property without authorization.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit says people could be deceived into thinking those uses are officially endorsed by <strong>Marley\u2019s<\/strong> widow, <strong>Rita Marley<\/strong>, and their children. <strong>Booker<\/strong> and <strong>Bob Marley<\/strong> shared the same mother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A feud has erupted within the first family of reggae, with the widow and nine children of Bob Marley suing his half brother to stop use of the Marley name to promote an annual Miami music festival and profit from other businesses in his native Jamaica. The lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court contends the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}