EasyJet parent company launches infringement lawsuit against PC Music’s EasyFun

thefader.com:

EasyGroup, the U.K.-based company behind the popular low-cost airline easyJet, has launched an infringement lawsuit against Finn Keane, a producer and DJ who has released music as EasyFun.

PC Music, the soon-to-be-dormant label EasyFun released music on, is named as a co-defendant in the suit alongside label founder A.G.

Cook. EasyGroup’s announcement — first reported by MusicTech — accuses Keane of “deliberate misappropriation of easyGroup’s trademarks… including easyGroup’s well-known orange styling as used by its family of brands, including famously by its licensee easyJet.” The post includes examples of EasyFun’s aesthetic throughout his career, including the cover of the 2015 EP Deep Trouble, which depicts animated figures escaping a plane crash.

Read Next: New Music Friday: This week’s essential new projects “Not only is the artwork in bad taste,” easyGroup writes, “but an association with such a tragic event risks seriously damaging the reputation in easyGroup’s trademarks, in particular easyJet.” “easyGroup’s claim,” the post reads, “is that Mr Keane has taken unfair advantage of and damaged the significant reputation attaching to easyGroup’s trademarks.