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Thu 08 Aug 2009Dispute over use of De Dannan name
WHAT’S IN a name? Quite a lot for some musicians it seems, after a spat between two of the founding members of trad supergroup De Dannan erupted yesterday into a public row as some of Ireland’s best-known musicians insulted each other on the airwaves.
Alec Finn, who founded the band along with fiddler Frankie Gavin, sent a solicitor’s letter recently to Gavin asking him to refrain from using the name De Dannan. Finn said he copyrighted the name after the band split up in 2004, not with a view to using it in the future, but to stop the name being exploited by others.
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