| Show - t te i NATIONWORLD Friday The Salt Lake Tribune A15 December 13 1991 :7: Producers Activists Blue About Joplin Suit THE ASSOCIATED damages for alleged unfair competition unjust enrichment and infringement of copyright and publicity rights Playwright Susan Ross and producers Gaye Anderi son and James Allen have filed antitrust counterclaims amounting to $3 million each The estate has authorized a Broadway musical to open next fallus !ng a book entitled "Love written by the tsecroovnerthede Jaansiiss 6 of 25 recently letters from Joplin to her family Last Month US District Judge C Coughenour set a tenta- tJoie trial date of Dec 7 1992 Coughenour is hearing arguments today on a move by Ross Anderson and Allen for a judgment rejecting the publicity-right- s claim as well as on a motion by the Joplin interests to dismiss the PRESS SEATTLE — Bela Lugosi Grouch° Marx Elvis Presley The Beatles Bette Midler JD Salinger All figure in an intense legal tug of war over "Janis" a play about the late rock and blues belter Janis Joplin A federal judge will be asked today to rule on key aspects of a lawsuit filed by Joplin's estate and allied businesses and on counterclaims by the producers and author of the play At the heart of the convoluted case is a simple dispute Joplin's heirs say the playwright and producers had no right to use Joplin's character and image especially in a concert scene The producers and author say the heirs are violating their First Amendment rights to free speech The First Amendment issues have drawn other organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union into the case on the side of the playwright Marjorie Heins head of the ACLU's Arts Censorcase could said the ship Project prove to be as significant as the Supreme Court's landmark 1964 ruling New York Times vs Sullivan Joplin's sister Laura Joplin and other heirs seek unspecified free-speec- Bishop and a live band performed Joplin tunes interspersed with typical Joplin concert banter In 1987 the Supreme Court let stand a federal appeals court ruling that blocked publication of a biography of JD Salinger based partly on letters from the reclusive novelist In a California state court ruling in 1979 the heirs of Bela Lugosi were denied a share of profits from "Count Dracula" coffee cups and other goods Courts have ruled against imitators of Elvis Presley the Beatles and Grouch() Marx Midler won a case against Ford Motor Co in 1988 over the use of an actress imitating her style in car commercials She also starred in "The Rose" a movie based loosely on the life of Janis Joplin antitrust claims Joplin a native of Port Arthur Texas rocketed to stardom with Big Brother and the Holding Company in 1966 She died in 1970 of a heroin overdose alone in a Hollywood motel In Act I of "Janis" a drugged-ou- t ' ' ' ''- ' ' Y- -' '4 ': an -- 6as ba - ' 4t44124 : -- b fr—:r WO ii 'e W 2Son 2 yin l' ap 'Tit I - - ' -: In l'- - q it 7' x V z st - 17-- " " 0 : 2 - ' ' - ' it ' ''''i1 - - '' - ' - - ' t11 ti I rif) ' ti 4 ta I rip1D f- 011‘ Uktill i R ' 4 I I I A '19 Lk -- i te - I : - 1 - 1 l - - - 4 - ' Sp- ' '2' - - -- : ' e tv es 1 : ':'4- -i- ' i : 'Lmot - - ii tili ' 111100111 ilii1h la l' ''l a 1 - Illili liglail l a w - 41 1 1144 rI 1 11 i 4 7''' ! -- 44s I A 11 t -- 0 4 1 ' -- - dp - 41aPN V 0-'44"''' - t '" - g iift - - i in ' 1 ' 11 tIl - 1 e'' I Ip l 1111111 ( - I i i i i - in 1 itiO 4 Ili k :: I i r rinimump-- It"-- ' i ' 1111ffilmitiviDlinit tI italtttz-6-it- it t t 1: 4 - ' A mil3 i - V 11 I g I I 4 ' f - iL -- VIIIIIIIIIMPHIMPlak It - 'I 0040 jilt At I I ' 0'- - :111 Ear 1 i- i I " 'if ' - ' ' 1:45 I f --- - I - - e7s ol tir I iipg s - Sin0" :1: I 11 ( 1 1 tti 1 1 i i tl 1 ''''Y --- 1 vr- - 1 1 tr) vi 1 1 A ' luded$ - - 1 - ' ' I ' ig - t r 1 ' ) 1-- : 1 t 'II I i ?1 A Irttlii Ilit16 r kt E Iv'0 it44-- i I tt ! s) : ! ilk- n ':'' 11 4 11--- -s -- 0 tal t9 ' i '14 It ' 'Tft :w ! 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