Tina Turner isn’t here for a tribute performer looking too much like her– and that’s just why she’s filed a lawsuit.
The queen of Rock ‘N’ Roll is suing a German-based impersonator who performs as her in a two-hour unofficial tribute show dubbed Simply The Best, Daily Mail reports.
Turner’s lawyers have accused Dorothea ‘Coco’ Fletcher of looking similar in her promotional posters and say they might be confusing fans into believing Turner is involved with the show.
The case brought on by the 81-year-old star has escalated to Germany’s Federal Court of Justice. The ruling could change the future for tribute performers, Black Enterprise reported.
Turner’s lawsuit is against Cofo Entertainment, which is a German company that represents Fletcher, and other tribute performers that replicate music stars like Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and Frank Sinatra.
If the judge rules in Turner’s favor, it would change the company’s business agenda and have an impact on the entire industry.
The lawsuit was first filed in 2020 after promotional posters for Simply The Best were put out. Courts in Cologne, Bavaria, ruled in Turner’s favor, agreeing that the flyers could be misleading.
The posters were then re-designed, and Turner lost at the Cologne Court of Appeals after it was ruled that the new posters did not outweigh Fletcher’s right of artistic expression.
Turner’s lawyer argued in federal court that Fletcher’s tribute act is mere advertisement and not an art form. In Cofo’s defense, attorney Brunhilde Ackermann claimed that any paying customer would want the tribute act to look like the real Tina Turner.
“Only a ‘chronically stupid person who looks at everything superficially’ would get the two confused,” Ackermann said.
The final ruling is not expected to be announced in February 2022.
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