[mjustice]

Yet another example of why verbal agreements are sketchy. “Some profits” should have been spelled out in a licensing agreement between the brewery and the estate. I hope they can work it out.

[Artemis Webb]

The lawyers can sort it out. All I know is that Thelonious Monk was a very gifted eccentric.

[PAR35]

Sounds like an interesting case, but I’d rather have the defendant brewery’s side.

Unwritten agreement.

10 years with no objection (one of the better cases for the oft pled, seldom successful laches defense).

[dainbramaged]

Straight, no chaser please.

[Robert DeLong]

Will he go after Helen Sung next for her piece titled Brother Thelonious?

[SharpRightTurn]

Rename it Brother Felonious and tell the Monk family to “bite me.”

[a fool in paradise]

Today I saw Karbach/InBev/Budweiser using Salvador Dali's image (appropriated from a famous photo of Dali) for advertising. I question whether the painter or the photographer's estates gave clearance.

It was a cardboard point of sale piece.

I think it used this Philip Halsman picture.

[o-n-money]

Is Rasputin’s family going to sue them also over their imperial stout?

[Crucial]

Never liked his music...

[Liberty Valance]

If no reasonable agreement can be reached just change the name to Felonious Punk and use a pic of Looter Guy or Debbie Wasserman Schultz.