In legal documents they claim the ZFT has the sole right to use our family name in the entertainment industry and that when I use my full legal name, Dweezil Zappa in connection with live musical performances, there is a “likelihood of confusion” because “it is likely that consumers will believe that [my] services originate and/or are affiliated with [the Zappa Family Trust].”
The ONLY confusion for me is why this is even happening. I guess I can understand Frank leaving the keys to the two kids who have no talent, assuming the other two had enough talent to fend for themselves. Then again, he knew how dirty everything was, so he had to be aware that it would come to this. But maybe FZ was not this short-sighted, but his wife was.
It's all so very complicated and sad.
It reminds me of the Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I have a dream" speech. It's not available for fair use, and anyone who wants to use it for anything has to pay big bucks, something like $100,000.
While I don't know either Frank Zappa or Martin Luther King, Jr., I think it would be fair to suggest that neither of them wanted to be locked up in a vault, so that the curious might spend $100 in order to peek inside and have a gander. I think they may have wanted more to become of what they offered the world, in a way that transcends money and profits.
Seems Ahmet and Diva are getting either desperate or greedy, with the "fake Frank."
It's just so genuinely sad to me.