{"id":354653,"date":"2026-03-24T01:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/354653\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T01:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:03:07","slug":"fka-twigs-sues-indie-band-the-twigs-over-name-trademark-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/354653\/","title":{"rendered":"FKA Twigs Sues Indie Band the Twigs Over Name Trademark Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/fka-twigs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fka-twigs\" data-tag=\"fka-twigs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FKA Twigs<\/a> has filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lawsuit\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lawsuit\" data-tag=\"lawsuit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lawsuit<\/a> against the Twigs, the indie band fronted by twin sisters Laura Good and Linda Good. The artist born Tahliah Barnett claims that the duo issued multiple cease-and-desist letters over the trademark connected to her stage name. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn court documents reviewed by Rolling Stone, Barnett claims the Twigs have known about her use of FKA Twigs since 2013, around which time they exchanged correspondence relating to the \u201clikelihood of confusion between her stage name and their band\u2019s name.\u201d In their email exchange, Barnett offered the band $15,000 to allow their musical entities to \u201cco-exist,\u201d without needing to purchase the name from the band. According to the documents, \u201cLaura and Linda declined and stressed that they did not consent to this proposed co-existence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBarnett continued to build her career as FKA Twigs, while the Twigs \u201csimply disappeared,\u201d the document reads. Evidence in the filing notes that FKA Twigs boasts 3.2 million monthly listeners on Spotify and more than 300 million views on YouTube, while the Twigs \u201chave 67 subscribers and 19,332 views on YouTube, 705 followers on Instagram, and 25 monthly listeners on Spotify.\u201d The numbers function as proof that \u201cthe parties operate in entirely different commercial ecosystems,\u201d and therefore it would be \u201cinconceivable\u201d that audiences would confuse the two acts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn May 2024, according to the lawsuit, the Twigs allegedly attempted to \u201cweaponize these barred and unmeritorious trademark claims\u201d by issuing cease-and-desist letters to Barnett \u201cthreatening litigation, including threats to enjoin Barnett\u2019s use of her mark, in order to disrupt Barnett\u2019s decade-long, uninterrupted use of the FKA TWIGS mark for Defendants\u2019 own gain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe Twigs allegedly \u201chave threatened to seek an injunction preventing Barnett from using her stage name, demanded a significant seven-figure payout to release any alleged claims against Barnett.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tRepresentatives for FKA Twigs declined to comment. The Twigs did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone\u2018s request for comment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBarnett has requested a jury trial to address the rights to use and registration of the FKA Twigs trademark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FKA Twigs has filed a lawsuit against the Twigs, the indie band fronted by twin sisters Laura Good&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[47491,146,31157,85,46,3195,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-354653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-courts-and-crime","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fka-twigs","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-lawsuit","14":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}