quoted 4 lines This is all old, old news, but I'm quite sure that they _sold_ the rights> This is all old, old news, but I'm quite sure that they _sold_ the rights
> to the KLF name and the material from "The White Room" to Wanda Dee, and
> she intended to go around touring as "The KLF". I have yet to see her doing
> that though, at least in the US.
My understanding (gleaned from conversations with Bill Drummond and the
band's legal reps in the UK) was that shortly after The White Room was
released, the band allowed Wanda Dee the right to tour with KLF material
for about three months as part of a settlement for their sampling her
without her permission. She was not given permission to bill herself as
"The KLF", but did so anyway, and continued to perform under that name
well after the three-month initial period expired. (When talking about
the shows in interviews she always referred to the act as "Wanda Dee and
the KLF Experience", but I've seen quite a few ads and flyers for shows --
including a two-gig stand here in Albuquerque last year -- that billed them
simply as "The KLF".)
As of about six months ago the band's lawyers were actively collecting
information in an attempt to stop her. Nobody on the KLF list has
mentioned her being in their town lately, so she may have stopped performing
again.
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Lazlo (lazlo@carina.unm.edu)