A challenge to New Jersey’s Truth in Music Act by progeny of 1950s-vintage crooner groups The Drifters, The Platters and The Coasters has been dismissed, now that the state has backed off its previously broad view of the law’s reach.
The state conceded at a court hearing that a common-law trademark to a group’s name is to be given the same force and effect as a registered mark, making it unnecessary for the performers to bill themselves as “tribute groups.”
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