{"id":503,"date":"2011-08-24T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/?p=503"},"modified":"2011-08-24T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T14:00:12","slug":"trademark-miles-image-estate-sues-jazz-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2011\/08\/trademark-miles-image-estate-sues-jazz-club.html","title":{"rendered":"Trademark “Miles” image? Estate sues jazz club"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Miles Jazz Cafe<\/a>, a low-key, off-the-mainline music loft in midtown Manhattan, is being sued<\/a> by the estate<\/a> of trumpeter Miles Davis for copyright infringement, citing use of the musician’s silhouette as “free-riding on the goodwill associated with the Miles Davis marks” in a way “likely to mislead the public.” \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The perpetually photogenic Davis was represented by a silhouette on album covers of his early 1960s Columbia albums Seven Steps to Heaven, Sketches of Spain<\/a> and Quiet Nights<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0Compare the logo of the bare-bones third-floor room run by Satoru “Miles” Kobayashi, who says the late jazzman urged him to take the name in a dream, with that famous image or other pictures of MD holding his horn.Same trumpeter? Hard to tell. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Miles Jazz Cafe, a low-key, off-the-mainline music loft in midtown Manhattan, is being sued by the estate of trumpeter Miles Davis for copyright infringement, citing use of the musician’s silhouette as “free-riding on the goodwill associated with the Miles Davis marks” in a way “likely to mislead the public.” The perpetually photogenic Davis was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/milescafe.gif","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-87","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":227,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2009\/08\/best_review_ever_of_miles_orne.html","url_meta":{"origin":503,"position":0},"title":"best review ever of Miles Ornette Cecil — Jazz Beyond Jazz","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"August 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm humbled by writer-poet-performance artist\u00c2\u00a0Kirpal Gordon's appreciation of and insight into my book on the avant garde through the models of Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor, in the just-posted NOLA issue of Big Bridge magazine. 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