Kanye West and Damon Dash SUED over "Loisadas" name! Music group livid over Hip Hop moguls using name as title for their new movie project!

Kanye West and Damon Dash SUED over "Loisadas" name! Music group livid over Hip Hop moguls using name as title for their new movie project!

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"A Lower East Side music producer says Kanye West and Damon Dash ripped off his trademarked “Loisaidas” band name for their new movie — and he’s furious because the flick promotes murder and drugs.

Michael Medina says in a Manhattan Federal Court suit filed Thursday that the rap moguls’ new movie about street life in the ‘hood gives his Latin duo “Loisadas” — slang for Lower East Side — a bad name.

The music group is signed to Medina’s independent music label, 848 Enterprises, and he trademarked the name in 2011, he told The Post.

“I’m disgusted that they’re taking a brand that I made and built and turning it into something that it isn’t,” said Medina, 47.

The movie,which was produced by West and Dash, premiered in New York City last month and tells a story about the hard-scrabble life of “a new breed of hustlers, The Loisaidas,” according to the flick’s Web site.

“We’re a bachata group, we do music, we do videos, we do audio,” said a frustrated Medina. “It’s not a movie based on something that happened – some street activities. That’s not what I’m promoting.”
Medina said last year he tried to approach Dash, rapper Jay-Z’s ex-business partner, about the trademark conflict as he was filming the movie. But the businessman, who still lives in the Lower East Side, was rebuffed by security.

Now, he hopes they can reach an “amicable” resolution that involves Dash and West ceasing from using the “Loisaidas” name.

“I’m not in this for a paycheck,” said Medina, “but I’m not going to let anyone use something that I worked hard for, that I’ve branded, that’s under my label.”
Reps for West and Dash didn’t immediately return messages.

Medina, who is acting as his own lawyer, is seeking unspecified damages."



Here's my opinion!

I think their lawsuit will fail miserably! However, they are getting some publicity from these news stories!

The fact that this guy is acting as his own lawyer is very interesting to me. I don't know his background, he may have studied law, then again he may not have. I hope he's at least brushing
up on the subject for his sake!

Loisaidas is a popular phrase and just means the Lower East Side.
Therefore, Damon Dash & Kanye West may have change the name of the movie to it's English translation.

I highly doubt this relatively unheard of group was "damaged" in anyway by this movie.
If anything, it's helping them to expand their audience. They've probably gained thousands
of fans since news of his movie broke. And if I were them, I tried to do business with Dame and Kanye! They should attempt to secure a deal where they have a small part in the sequel to the film and get to record 2 songs for the soundtrack! Produced by Kanye West of course!

But hey this all my opinion! What do you think?

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