WWF sues Wesley Willis!

Everyone's favorite 300+ pound, black schizophrenic with a gigantic callous on his forehead from Chicago, Wesley Willis, is facing losing his live CD due to the World Wrestling Federation's problem with the Wesley Willis Fiasco's logo. Read More for all the sordid details.

An attorney for the World
Wrestling Federation has sent
Orange County, Calif.-based
independent label Cornerstone
R.A.S. a cease and desist letter
asking it to stop the sale and
distribution of the new album from
Wesley Willis, entitled "The
Wesley Willis Fiasco Live E.P."

In a letter to Cornerstone, WWF attorney Ira S. Nathenson
says that the disc uses artwork that is "confusingly similar to
our client's federally registered WWF logo." In the upper left
hand corner of the album's front cover is a hand-drawn, near
replica of the WWF logo.

The letter continues to say that the cover "infringes upon and
dilutes" the WWF's trademark rights, before threatening legal
action. The WWF is asking that all copies of the album be
recalled and either destroyed or handed over to the WWF,
which also wants the album's artwork removed from the
Cornerstone Web site. The wrestling giant also wants an
accounting of the profits made from the album and a letter
stating that all of its requests have been met.

Cornerstone spokesman Hector Martinez said that although
the label's executives planned to meet yesterday (May 15) to
decide how to handle the WWF's requests, plans already call
for the second pressing of the album -- taped during a string
of shows the Chicago-based Willis played with his band, the
Fiasco, between 1992 and 1994 -- to carry a different
cover.

He adds, "We're trying to turn lemons into lemonade and
take advantage of any additional light put on this release."

Cornerstone is an offshoot of the Long Beach, Calif.-based
independent Skunk, known for issuing the first two Sublime
albums "Robbin' the Hood," and "40 Oz. to Freedom," later
re-issued by MCA. Cornerstone has released albums by the
Austin, Texas-based, all-girl rock act the Applicators,
Huntington Beach, Calif.-based cow punkabilly act the
Ziggens, and others.

Source: Billboard.com